Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Gerry Ritz, one of the longest serving Conservative members of Parliament, is leaving federal political life. Sources tell The Canadian Press the former agriculture minister and MP for a Sask...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - British Columbia’s tourism industry is taking a hit with businesses reporting rising cancellations and decreased traffic over fears of wildfires. Maya Lange with Destinations BC...

VANCOUVER - To avoid a potential political fumble British Columbia’s Liberal party is moving the dates of its leadership race to avoid conflicting with the Super Bowl. The party had planned to a...

VANCOUVER - Scotiabank’s $800-million deal for the naming rights to the Air Canada Centre, home of the NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs, is the latest move by a corporation to corner the sponsors...

OTTAWA - Liberal backbenchers have been getting an earful this summer from small business owners outraged by the Trudeau government’s proposals to end what it calls “unfair tax advantages....

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Aug. 30 --- AIR TRANSAT PASSENGERS TELL HARROWING TALES AT HEARING: Passengers trapped aboard two Air Transat jets described hours on end of sweltering hea...

TORONTO - A Canadian-led international research team is using a “barcoding” system to investigate the growth patterns of individual cells that make up the deadliest form of brain cancer, w...

CALGARY - Three senior members of the Calgary Police Service have been charged with kidnapping and assaulting a man they believed had information in the 2010 case of an at-risk female youth who they t...

MONTREAL - A disgruntled B.C. bride has filed a national class-action lawsuit against Air Transat for ruining her wedding by allegedly misrepresenting flights as non-stop. Vancouver law firm Rosenberg...

SYDNEY, N.S. - A Nova Scotia man convicted of murdering a 19-year-old woman solely for thrills has admitted to being an accessory to the murder of another young woman. Thomas Ted Barrett pleaded guilt...