Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - Quebecers will be decked out in blue and white today as the Fte nationale holiday is marked by parades, celebrations, and heat warnings. The festivities are coinciding with some extreme wea...

THE HAGUE - Prime Minister Mark Carney begins a two-day stop Tuesday in the Netherlands, where NATO alliance members are prepared to decide whether to more than double the defence spending target. The...

Nigeria's financial crimes agency says a man who tried to blackmail a Surrey, B.C., teenager by posting his intimate images online has been sentenced to prison terms totalling 76 years. RCMP have said...

Crews battling wildfires burning near Dawson, Yukon, say there's been minimal growth of the wildfire close to homes in the area, although almost 200 properties remain on alert for possible evacuation....

LAKE LOUISE - A survivor of a rockfall last week in Banff National Park is remembering 33-year-old friend Hamza Benhilal, who didn't make it out alive from under the rubble. Khaled Elgamal, 28, of Sur...

OTTAWA - A top federal official says fixing the payroll problems caused by Phoenix cost taxpayers more than $5 billion - and they'll keep paying extra to run two public service payroll platforms at on...

MARSTON, QUE - Quebec's police watchdog is investigating after provincial police killed a person in an alleged shootout about 200 kilometres east of Montreal. The independent agency says police respon...

OTTAWA - The Federal Court of Appeal is refusing to allow the owners of a British Columbia ostrich farm to conduct further testing of their flock for avian flu in a bid to avert a cull ordered by the ...

ST. JOHN'S - Newfoundland and Labrador's capital city will no longer name new streets and city buildings after individual people. St. John's, N.L., city councillor Ron Ellsworth says naming streets an...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says the provincewide state of emergency has been lifted as wildfires recede. More coming. The Canadian Press