Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie made a rare public appearance Sunday to bring attention to the ongoing plight of some of Canada’s young indigenous people, likening it to the same ki...

MONTREAL - Police should have no role in responding to mental health crises, activist groups said in response to last week last week’s police shooting of a Montreal man. About 200 people, includ...

SAINT-FELIX-DE-KINGSEY, Que. - When Nathalie Gagnon and her partner bought a closed-down inn in Quebec last year, they had no intention of reopening it under the traditional model. Instead, the couple...

WASHINGTON - What makes someone a good predictor of upcoming events? The U.S. intelligence community has run several projects aimed at answering that question. That includes a tournament called the Ag...

WASHINGTON - Amir Bagherpour already has a detailed set of charts predicting how everything will play out in the NAFTA negotiations, even though they don’t actually start for another few weeks. ...

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $5 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. However, the guaranteed $1 million prize went to a ticket holder in Quebec. The jackpot for th...

EDMONTON - Manuel Goncalves has a message for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: My Canada includes Alberta, even if your speech didn’t. Trudeau touched off a Twitter firestorm Saturday during his C...

Canadians from across the country celebrated Canada’s 150 birthday Saturday. Here are some highlights: - Dozens of people took a boatride off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador to be the fir...

VANCOUVER - Byrdie Funk marked Canada Day by taking a citizenship oath, but unlike the 150 people around her who also raised their right arm to do the same, she is hardly a newcomer. Funk, who is a th...

TORONTO - Peter Mansbridge ended his run as CBC’s main anchor Saturday saying he wasn’t a “fan of long goodbyes”, but was a “fan of long thank yous.” “I thank...