Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - Irving Oil has donated $2.2 million to Dalhousie University to support a $64 million revamp of the school’s engineering and architecture campus. A joint release from Dalhousie and the ...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Over 400 firefighters are working to contain the largest wildfire in British Columbia’s history. Kevin Skrepnek of the BC Wildfire Service said 19 fires merged in an area west o...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s education minister says it’s “full steam ahead” with a proposed expansion of pre-primary classes for four-year-olds, brushing aside opposition critics w...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - A New Brunswick police officer recently caught a ride on a city bus to nab people using their cellphones while driving. Constable Duane Squires of Saint John police says the initiat...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative government ended its status as the lone holdout among the provinces when it signed a health-care funding agreement with Ottawa on Monday. The gover...

RENOUS, N.B. - An inmate was taken to hospital after an assault at a maximum-security prison in New Brunswick. Officials at the federal Atlantic Institution in Renous say the victim was found injured ...

Montreal police say a tourist from California is in critical condition after falling four storeys early this morning. The incident took place at a popular bar in the Gay Village in the city’s do...

TORONTO - An interim safe injection site in Toronto - the first such officially-sanctioned facility in Canada’s most populous city - will save lives as the city grapples with a spike in suspecte...

Three stories in the news for Monday, Aug. 21 --- PARTIAL ECLIPSE TO TAKE A BITE OUT OF CANADA’S SUN Canadians across the country will be donning special glasses and looking to the sky to take i...

Canadians across the country put on protective glasses, glanced through solar telescopes and scrutinized pinhole projectors to take in a partial solar eclipse Monday. Unlike the U.S., Canada didn̵...