Category Archives: Canada

A researcher has found that a federal subsidy intended to reduce astronomical food prices for northern families has resulted in stale-dated, unreliable food on store shelves without making grocery bil...

OTTAWA - More than 22,000 cattle at farms in Alberta and Saskatchewan are quarantined due to bovine tuberculosis, causing hardship for ranchers and millions in compensation payments and other costs. T...

CALGARY - When Xerox Canada moved its Toronto headquarters into a 33,500-square-foot building in North York in August, it just couldn’t find a place for Dance of the Owl. The square stonecut-and...

MONTREAL - Sheila Sullivan was one of 58 prospective religious sisters to join Montreal’s Congregation de Notre-Dame in 1964. In 2016, only one woman in Canada has applied to join the country...

VANCOUVER - The ever-simmering world of pipeline politics is once again threatening to boil over after the federal government approved the Trans Mountain project, as both backers and critics of the po...

MONTREAL - Canadians can breathe easier with the new Parti Quebecois leader, a pragmatic and wily politician who promises that if elected premier in 2018, he won’t hold a sovereignty referendum ...

VANCOUVER - A sketch of Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, who is also an outspoken climate crusader: Born: Sept. 18, 1964, in North Vancouver (age: 52). Professional background: He started an organic ...

TORONTO - Two winning tickets were sold for Saturday night’s $25 million Lotto 649 jackpot. One was purchased in Ontario and the other in Quebec - each being worth almost $12.4 million. The winn...

PINE DOCK, Man. - RCMP and emergency officials in Manitoba say a school bus with more then two dozen students slid off a road and onto its side. Police say the bus, from the Frontier School Division, ...

TORONTO - The director of the Ontario Medical Association is remembering a doctor whose body was found by the side of a road in Vaughan, Ont., on Thursday afternoon. Police say the woman was reported ...