Category Archives: Canada

Highlights from the news file for Friday, Dec. 16 BC CORONER ISSUES WARNING TO DRUG USERS: The British Columbia coroners’ service has issued an urgent warning to illicit drug users after an unpr...

HALIFAX - Schools of dead herring keep washing ashore along the rocky beaches of western Nova Scotia, prompting a retired scientist to enlist the help of local naturalists and bird watchers as he cont...

OTTAWA - It was the final week of Parliament before Christmas, and all through the House.... the Liberals did their best to make sure no one had any time to think about ethics or fundraising before he...

MONCTON, N.B. - An announcement Friday begins the final phase of a restoration plan for New Brunswick’s Petitcodiac River. Here’s a timeline of the river’s last 50 years: 1966 - Cons...

VANCOUVER - An urgent warning has been sent out to illicit drug users in British Columbia after 11 people died in the province on Thursday alone, six of them in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Th...

OTTAWA - Status of Women Minister Patty Hajdu approved a $1.1-million price tag to build a new suite of offices for herself and her staff earlier this year, even though she was told the cost might rai...

MONTREAL - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he’ll wait to comment on the consequences of the United States moving its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem until president-elect Donald Trump makes good...

Edmonton police have charged a man with killing a woman whose body was found in a storage shed two years ago. Freda Goodrunning, a 35-year-old mother of six from the Sunchild First Nation in west cent...

TORONTO - Yahoo is now facing a proposed class action on behalf of Canadians whose personal information may have been stolen, according to a notice of action filed Friday. The $50-million claim would ...

BELLEVILLE, Ont. - A Canadian Armed Forces sergeant based at CFB Trenton in eastern Ontario has been sentenced to six years in prison for child pornography offences and arranging to commit a sexual of...