Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Canadian researchers have identified the genetic signature that explains why up to 30 per cent of men with potentially curable localized prostate cancer develop aggressive disease that sprea...

Marineland was charged Monday with six counts of animal cruelty, but the company dismissed the allegations, accusing Ontario’s animal welfare agency of acting on behalf of “a band of discr...

TORONTO - Ontario is committing to fund three supervised injection sites in Toronto and one in Ottawa, as the province tries to combat rising numbers of overdose deaths amid a broader opioid crisis. T...

Toronto police are searching for a man who allegedly assaulted someone while wearing an Angry Birds costume. Police say on Oct. 30, around 2:30 a.m., a 24-year-old man was walking on a downtown street...

An Ontario man who died fighting Islamic State militants in northern Syria was remembered as a hero by members of Canada’s Kurdish community who gathered Monday in Ottawa to honour him. Nazzaren...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The daughter of a one-time top public servant in Newfoundland and Labrador has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder. Five weeks have been set aside for the trial of Anne ...

TORONTO - Politicians and public health officials say increasing access to overdose-fighting medication is key to tackling the fentanyl-fuelled opioid crisis that is moving across the country. Toronto...

OTTAWA - A greater number of Canadian firms are expecting to benefit from what they foresee as stronger post-election growth in the United States, a new Bank of Canada poll suggested Monday. However, ...

BRANDON, Man. - A Manitoba teenager who pleaded guilty to counselling terrorism will spend no more time in custody, but will have to live under strict curfew conditions and wear an electronic monitori...

HALIFAX - A week after a former soldier suffering from PTSD killed his wife, daughter and mother before killing himself, a difficult and complex debate has emerged in Nova Scotia about the role of dom...