Category Archives: Canada

The city of Thunder Bay, Ont., and First Nations leaders in the region have signed a pledge to fight racism in the northern Ontario community, which has been plagued by tensions between Indigenous res...

TORONTO - One of Canada’s largest universities says it will appeal a Federal Court ruling that found it was circumventing copyright fees in reproducing materials being handed out to students. To...

MONTREAL - Comedy clubs are still male-dominated and if more women are to take their place in the industry, booking agents, audiences and fellow artists need to do more to encourage them to perform st...

TORONTO - Six months before the next Super Bowl, Bell Media is relaunching its fight against the CRTC’s decision to ban the substitution of big-budget U.S. commercials with Canadian ones during ...

CALGARY - Former federal cabinet minister Jason Kenney says he won’t have a policy platform as he seeks the leadership of Alberta’s new United Conservative Party. Kenney announced what he ...

Walmart Canada is eliminating the pickup fee from its online grocery service as it braces for increasing competition in a business where profit margins are already razor thin. The retail giant said Tu...

MONTREAL - A woman who was aboard an Air Transat flight says she and other passengers were forced to stay in the plane on an Ottawa runway for six hours in uncomfortably warm conditions. Maryanne Zehi...

MONTREAL - A new study suggests anglophone Montrealers drink more excessively than their francophone and allophone counterparts and that tippling habits are split along linguistic and cultural lines. ...

REGINA - There was a popping sound like fireworks, yellow sparks and a plume of black smoke as a power meter caught fire at a home in Regina. Provincial utility company SaskPower says the fire Monday ...

HALIFAX - A Halifax adjudicator is lamenting that the law treats pets as chattels, musing aloud about a more perfect world in which they could be recognized as living, feeling creatures with rights an...