Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - The Canadian Coast Guard has dispatched two ships to the mid Atlantic to assist three sailboats that were battered - and in one case demasted - by a powerful storm during an across-the-ocean...

Highlights from the news file for Friday, June 9 --- BIBEAU VOWS TO FIGHT FOR MORE FUNDING FOR FEMINIST AID POLICY: International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says she will keep lobbying i...

TORONTO - A Toronto woman has been found not criminally responsible in the stabbing of her condo doorman last year. Ellis Kirkland was charged with attempted murder, assault with a weapon and weapons ...

MONTREAL - Canada’s Immigration Department says a murder suspect who was set free after his trial exceeded the legal length limit is expected to be sent back to Sri Lanka in the next two weeks. ...

WASHINGTON - After chatting excitedly about all the ways Donald Trump was in deep trouble, how James Comey’s testimony had set tough traps for the president, how other witnesses would corroborat...

OTTAWA - When Justin Trudeau grabbed a bite with Barack Obama in Montreal this week, it was far more than a couple of friends catching up over crab cakes. Beyond the frame of the immaculately staged a...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government has spent the last week rolling out a new foreign policy. Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland gave an overarching speech that positioned Canada as a champion of ...

HALIFAX - The federal government detailed its plans Friday to create a special unit to support injured Armed Forces members as they prepare a return to civilian life. Treasury Board President Scott Br...

HALIFAX - Fred Turnbull was only 19 when his landing craft approached the beaches of Normandy as part of the greatest amphibious assault in military history. Now 92, Turnbull, who was a Royal Canadian...

CHURCHILL, Man. - The only ground transportation to subarctic Churchill has been suspended until at least winter - and possibly next spring - dealing a blow to the remote Manitoba community’s to...