Category Archives: Canada

A painting found in a thrift shop a little over a year ago will finally be sold this week - for at least $45,000. It’s by the prolific Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis, who’s the subject of...

OTTAWA - A panel advising the government on how to overhaul the National Energy Board says Canada’s current system for reviewing and regulating energy projects is broken and facing a crisis of c...

TORONTO - The editor-in-chief of a Canadian magazine has stepped down amid a contentious conversation about cultural appropriation in Canadian media and literature. A representative from The Walrus sa...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil said he’ll put the province’s school boards under the microscope if re-elected because trustees’ decision to vote themselves pay increase...

MONCTON, N.B. - It was a sunny summer evening in Moncton’s northwest end. After a streak of rain, temperatures had climbed, and people filled the streets basking in first days of warmth. As chil...

MONTREAL - David Samuelson stands in the bare, still-damp space in his basement that was once his son’s room. Outside on the front lawn of his Montreal home is a growing pile of waterlogged debr...

OTTAWA - For 16 years, Maggy Gisle thought her lot in life was to be a “junkie, a prostitute and a drug dealer.” Now, Gisle - once known as “Crazy Jackie,” a fixture on the Dow...

OTTAWA - Provinces have been protesting the large volume of work and heavy costs they say the Trudeau government has piled on them in its rush to legalize recreational cannabis across Canada by next y...

OTTAWA - The Trump administration is likely to quickly trigger the process that will lead to renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, now that a new U.S. trade representative has been...

VANCOUVER - There will be no new whales, dolphins or porpoises kept at the Vancouver Aquarium in the future if the city’s park board approves changes to its cetaceans bylaw on Monday. It’s...