Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The auto sector rates nary a mention in the published list of U.S. objectives for the renegotiation of NAFTA. But senior Canadian officials privately believe the automotive industry is actual...

OTTAWA - Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is facing legal action from several environmental groups who accuse the government of dragging its heels on investigating Volkswagen for duping Canadian...

TORONTO - Joseph Boyden has penned a lengthy essay for Maclean’s magazine addressing critics who have questioned his claims of Indigenous heritage. “Being Indigenous isn’t all about ...

HALIFAX - The best-loved cat on Halifax’s waterfront has died. Erik the Red, the retired “rodent control officer” at the CSS Acadia national historic site, passed away Tuesday. The M...

FRANKFORD, Ont. - Ontario’s animal welfare organization says it is investigating after three severed cat heads were discovered in an open field over the past month. The Ontario Society for the P...

Researchers at the Royal Ontario Museum and Yale University have discovered the fossil of a spiky-headed worm that they believe would have struck fear in the hearts of other creatures swimming in anci...

A group of mayors from Canada and the U.S. has dropped its challenge to a decision allowing an American city to draw water from the Great Lakes, saying it has secured an agreement to improve the revie...

TORONTO - The City of Toronto announced several measures Thursday in response to a spike in suspected opioid-related deaths in recent weeks. Here is a list of what the city says it is doing: - Speedin...

MONTREAL - Former Quebec Liberal cabinet minister Jacques Daoust, who quit politics because of controversy surrounding his alleged role in a government agency’s sale of Rona Inc. shares to a U.S...

HEMMINGFORD, Que. - The scene greeting asylum seekers at a popular illegal border crossing point in Quebec on Thursday was vastly changed from that of a few months earlier. What used to be an unmarked...