Category Archives: Canada

EDMONTON - The mother of a five-month-old baby boy who died in an Edmonton house fire says she is touched by the support she is receiving from everyone. Angie Tang says in a brief statement that she i...

Highlights from the news file for Monday, Aug. 28 --- PRIME MINISTER TO DISSOLVE INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS FILE: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the Indigenous Affairs file is being restructured and will ...

OTTAWA - A pair of relative political rookies - Seamus O’Regan and Carla Qualtrough - have been tapped to guide two of the federal Liberal government’s most complex and politically sensiti...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. - A native American band says its anglers have caught about 20,000 fish following the collapse of a commercial net pen rearing farmed Atlantic salmon in Puget Sound. The Lummi Nation...

OTTAWA - A United Nations panel says the construction of British Columbia’s $8.8-billion Site C dam should be halted until there is a full review of how it would affect Indigenous land. The reco...

MONTREAL - Canadian softwood lumber producers are getting a temporary reprieve as a large portion of preliminary duties in place for four months have ended pending a final decision. Most lumber compan...

HALIFAX - The Canadian Hurricane Centre says a large storm system off the coast of Florida will likely push through waters off Atlantic Canada sometime Wednesday or Thursday. Forecasters say potential...

REGINA - Premier Brad Wall has kicked out a founding member of his governing Saskatchewan Party after a review found the member of the legislature tried to influence potential investors while he was o...

VANCOUVER - Solitary confinement is a cruel and inhumane punishment with “truly horrific” consequences including severe psychological harm and suicide, a lawyer said Monday in arguing the ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced he is preparing for a significant shift in his government’s handling of the Indigenous Affairs file - a plan designed to lead to the dissolut...