Category Archives: Canada

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A transgender activist vying for a non-binary birth certificate is taking legal action against the Newfoundland and Labrador government as part of an effort to have a gender o...

OTTAWA - Even once reforms proposed by the Trudeau government are in place, Canada would sit only 46th on a list of global freedom-of-information rankings - sandwiched between Peru and Bulgaria. The H...

OTTAWA - Public health and medical experts are supporting 10 new recommendations to help reduce health risks associated with using cannabis. The recommendations, published in the American Journal of P...

WINNIPEG - Indigenous leaders say a broken train line that has cut off land access to Churchill in northern Manitoba could be fixed in two months if governments and the railway’s owner would put...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government said Friday it is going to Federal Court to seek “clarity” on two aspects of a compliance order issued in May by a quasi-judicial human rights tribunal on t...

HALIFAX - One of the most potent opioids on the planet has likely made its way to the East Coast - and it poses a deadly risk for street drug users, Nova Scotia’s chief medical officer said Frid...

OTTAWA - Six of the country’s leading health organizations endorse 10 new cannabis recommendations designed to help reduce the risks associated with Canadians using marijuana - which is set to b...

WAWA, Ont. - The giant honking Canada Goose in Wawa, Ont., that has quietly greeted countless travellers for more than five decades is set to fly its concrete roost ahead of the formal arrival of a re...

EDMONTON - A member of the Canadian Armed Forces in Alberta has been charged with child luring as well as with making and distributing child pornography. Police say child luring allegations were first...

OTTAWA - The head of the navy says the country needs submarines to know what is happening beneath the waves around Canada - though he won’t say if foreign subs are actually poking around Canadia...