Category Archives: Canada

VANCOUVER - David Strangway, a geophysicist who served as president of the University of British Columbia from 1985 to 1997 and worked for NASA during the Apollo space missions, has died. University p...

PICTOU, N.S. - A former Nova Scotia teacher with bipolar disorder who sexually abused one teenage male student and sent sexually explicit texts to another has been sentenced to 15 months of house arre...

OAK BAY, B.C. - Residents of a picturesque community on Vancouver Island have had enough of deer munching on their prized gardens, so a group is looking at whether birth control might help rein in the...

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - Police in New Westminster, B.C., say a 39-year-old “high-risk” woman and her newborn baby have been found safe. The New Westminster Police Department had asked the ...

RICHMOND, B.C. - The Transportation Safety Board issued recommendations to the Transport Department on Wednesday aimed at the commercial fishing industry after the capsizing in September 2015 of a ves...

BATHURST, N.B. - Two police officers charged in the fatal shooting of a New Brunswick businessman they mistakenly thought was involved in the drug trade won’t find out until next year whether th...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government made a bid for peace with the province’s teachers union Wednesday, while another labour battle was brewing with public servants. Premier Stephen McNeil asked...

TORONTO - The Toronto-based parent company of the infidelity dating site Ashley Madison said Wednesday it hoped to have turned the page after reaching settlements in an investigation led by the U.S. F...

HALIFAX - Scientists remain baffled by what has caused tens of thousands of dead herring to wash ashore along Nova Scotia’s southwestern coast, despite a battery of tests. “What it is, is ...

OTTAWA - New food labelling amendments announced Wednesday by Health Canada are designed to make it easier to compare serving sizes on different products while shopping. With the new labels, Canadians...