Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - There was nothing left to do except crack bitter Armageddon jokes. Disbelief turned to deep concern and then faded to a sense of futility as Canadian politicians attempted to make sense of Do...

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - A man who confessed to killing the house manager at an addiction treatment centre New Westminster, B.C., has been found not criminally responsible for the death because of a me...

TORONTO - Harm reduction workers in Toronto are calling for the immediate opening of interim safe injection spaces and social housing with a focus on helping drug users as the city deals with a spike ...

EDMONTON - Canada’s foreign minister says North Korea’s nuclear program poses a “grave threat” to the security of the world and called on the country to fall into line with the...

TORONTO - A disciplinary hearing will be held for a Toronto police sergeant after a civilian oversight agency found there were grounds to believe he used excessive force in stomping on and repeatedly ...

CALGARY - In an industry that lives and dies by the weather, farmers like Dwight Foster are looking for all the help they can get to know what’s coming. “We use every tool in the toolbox w...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada has to correct the census results from thousands of Canadians after finding an error in its system that reported unusually high increases in the number of English speakers i...

CHALK RIVER, Ont. - A proposed nuclear waste disposal site on land around Chalk River Laboratories is too close to the Ottawa River, says Bloc Quebecois Leader Martine Ouellet. A significant percentag...

HALIFAX - Two well-loved geese who were run down by a motorist will be memorialized Saturday by local residents who see them as far more than just a couple noisy birds. The geese were among nine known...

OTTAWA - The prospect of growing camps of migrants on the Quebec-New York border prompted Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board to exclusively dedicate 20 of its members Friday to the handling ...