Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Vanessa Lewis couldn’t imagine watching her kids grow up bombarded by digital screens - so she effectively banned the technology from their sight. Making a pact with her husband, the c...

OTTAWA - Air pollution cost Canadian families an estimated $36 billion in 2015 due to premature death and illness, a new research report says. The report, Costs of Pollution in Canada, is a compilatio...

SPRINGBROOK, Alta. - Police officers and their canine partners have been getting some “paws-on” practice at a two-day seminar in central Alberta. A total of 24 teams from across Canada sni...

QUEBEC - Canada’s Constitution has become a taboo topic among members of the political class in recent years - but it appears that’s about to change. The Canadian Press has learned the Que...

VANCOUVER - A scientist says a public-private partnership aimed at developing medications that would combat overdose deaths in the United States could potentially help chronic drug users in Canada. Dr...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is condemning a massive suicide explosion in Kabul that killed 90 and wounded hundreds of people inside the city’s so-called diplomatic zone. ...

CALGARY - The president of Kinder Morgan Canada (TSX:KML) has defended the Trans Mountain project as having gone through rigorous assessments in his first comments since the B.C. NDP-Green party allia...

MONTREAL - Bets on the outcome of a Donald Trump presidency are officially open. On Wednesday, Loto-Quebec invited players on its Mise-o-jeu platform to wager on the following question: “Will Do...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. - They’ve been training for it, but students at elementary schools in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., won’t get a chance to show off their high jumping abilities at track an...

CALGARY - When Jill was 27, she woke up with tingling and numbness in her left hand that eventually spread to half her body. The Calgary woman, who did not want her last name used for fear it could hi...