Category Archives: Canada

KENTVILLE, N.S. - A Nova Scotia court martial heard contrasting views from witnesses Monday on whether a white reservist’s use of the word “nappy” to describe a black co-worker’...

OTTAWA - Reis Pagtakhan emphasizes the plural when he talks about the Filipino grocery stores, restaurants, newspapers and radio programs that now populate Winnipeg, decades after his family first cam...

BANFF, Alta. - A resort in Banff National Park will be closed indefinitely as a wildfire burns in the wilderness close to the Alberta-B.C. boundary. Sunshine Village, a popular ski hill that has summe...

MONTREAL - Ten years to the day that a young Quebec girl named Cedrika Provencher disappeared from her home and was later killed, her grandfather is trying to ensure other children aren’t the vi...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador’s embattled finance minister abruptly called it quits Monday, six months after she complained about being constantly bullied online by critics ...

WHITEHORSE - Fresh firefighters have arrived from Yukon to help bring British Columbia’s wildfires under control. The territory’s wildfire service says 16 firefighters and an air-tanker gr...

TORONTO - CBC’s “The National” plans to reveal its new anchors on Tuesday, giving viewers more insight into the direction it hopes to take with its flagship news program. The announc...

MISCOU ISLAND, N.B. - Crews have knocked down a large forest fire on Miscou Island in the province’s northeast, but 25 people who fled the flames can’t return to their homes just yet. Roge...

TORONTO - Ontario’s premier had to shuffle a few members of her cabinet Monday as her environment minister announced his resignation, a move she insisted should not be interpreted as evidence of...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Three Labrador protesters jailed after refusing to obey a court injunction ordering them to stay away from the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project site are to be released. The...