Category Archives: Canada

Lottery winners in Quebec are getting a new way to practice saying ‘No’ when asked for money. Loto-Quebec began offering virtual reality technology Wednesday to winners who might have trou...

QUEBEC - A well-known left-wing activist has pleaded not guilty to a charge of obstructing justice and one of impersonation that was filed after he identified himself as former NHL star Michel Goulet....

Public high schools across the country are welcoming a growing number of international students in an effort to build valuable relationships and - in some cases - boost revenue. Though international s...

SHEDIAC, N.B. - As Canadian officials scramble to determine whether an endangered whale caught in fishing rope off Quebec’s Gaspe Peninsula may have freed itself, federal Fisheries and Oceans Mi...

OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau has named David Adams Richards, an acclaimed New Brunswick novelist, essayist, screenwriter and poet, to the Senate. “His dedication to the arts, his love of place and of...

WASAGAMACK, Man. - Some 2,000 residents of a remote Manitoba Indigenous community took turns piling into boats in the darkness as they fled a large forest fire that raced toward their homes. They were...

Montreal police say they are searching for suspects after a man was gunned down inside the front door of an apartment Tuesday night. Police say the suspects pulled up in a dark vehicle and went inside...

QUEBEC - A provincial byelection will be held in the Quebec City riding of Louis-Hebert on Oct. 2. The vote will fill the national assembly’s only remaining vacant seat, left empty after the dep...

OTTAWA - Passengers who were trapped aboard two Air Transat jets earlier this summer described hours on end of sweltering heat, a lack of water and the stench of vomit in the cabin as a federal agency...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A couple from Conception Bay South, N.L., are the province’s newest millionaires after finally drawing the elusive ace of spades. Don and Marg Gorman pulled the card in ...