Category Archives: Canada

Five stories in the news for Wednesday, Dec. 28 --- STILL NO SIGN OF MISSING HIKERS ON B.C. MOUNTAIN A search will resume at first light for two hikers missing since Monday on B.C.’s Cypress Mou...

TORONTO - Here is a list of Canada’s biggest weather stories of the year as compiled by the country’s top meteorologists. 1. Wildfire in Fort McMurray, Alta. 2. Super El Nino cancels winte...

TORONTO - The “beast” of a wildfire that charred Fort McMurray, Alta., was named Canada’s biggest weather story of the year in an annual list compiled by the country’s top mete...

OTTAWA - Some 33 per cent of Canadians who participated in a recent poll conducted by the Canadian Automobile Association admit they have texted while stopped at a red light in the last month. That...

VANCOUVER - North Shore Rescue says the search for two men who have gone missing while snowshoeing near Cypress Mountain is particularly challenging because crews don’t know what route they took...

OTTAWA - Global Affairs Canada is confirming that a 10-year-old girl who died Christmas Eve after falling ill aboard a transatlantic Air Canada flight was Canadian. The Toronto-to-London flight divert...

TORONTO - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canadian actors Dan Aykroyd and William Shatner are some of the scores of people paying tribute to the late Carrie Fisher, best known for her role as Princess ...

YARMOUTH, N.S. - Social media users are casting their “likes” for photos of exotic lobsters in an online contest that has a multitude of multicoloured, oversized and extra-limbed critters ...

WINNIPEG - An Air Canada flight made an unscheduled landing in Winnipeg after the airline says the cabin became too warm. Airline spokesman Peter Fitzpatrick says in an email that the Airbus A321 was ...

SASKATOON - A Saskatchewan First Nation says it will receive $4.5 million in compensation for a dispute with the federal government that dates back to the 1885 Northwest Rebellion. The Specific Claims...