Category Archives: Canada

BARRIE, Ont. - Police say officers had to remove an angry beaver that stopped traffic north of Toronto. Barrie, Ont., police say they were called to a roadway around 9:30 p.m. last Friday where office...

MONTREAL - As water levels in Quebec showed signs of dropping slightly Tuesday, authorities urged people to be patient and warned the situation will not return to normal for several weeks. “The ...

NEW GLASGOW, N.S. - Twenty-five years after she lost her husband to one of Nova Scotia’s worst coal mining disasters, Darlene Dollimont-Svenson still finds it difficult talking about the life th...

HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia Liberal candidate who was dropped over comments he made on social media in 2013 is apologizing for his behaviour. Pictou East candidate Matthew MacKnight issued a brief stateme...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil says his campaign communications director resigned because he felt “under attack” after the Tories questioned the appropriateness of hiring som...

Seven stories in the news for Tuesday, May 9 --- BODY OF MAN MISSING IN QUEBEC FLOODS FOUND; CHILD STILL MISSING Police in Quebec say the body of Mike Gagnon, 37, of Saint-Anne-des-Monts, has been rec...

EDMONTON - Members of an indigenous community in central Alberta are angry that strangers are using social media to attack the mother of a toddler who was found dead near a church last month. The body...

OTTAWA - The RCMP created, then suddenly abandoned, a tool to crunch electronic message trails gathered during criminal investigations - a previously unknown foray into the controversial realm of big-...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia has its first minority government in 65 years as the Liberals squeaked out a razor-thin victory over the NDP on Tuesday, with the Green party holding the balance of power ...

TORONTO - Firefighters seeking training in ice rescue operations may have no other choice but to take unregulated private courses such as the ones in which two Ontario men died, an inquest into the me...