Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet had expected to receive findings from a task force studying the legalization of marijuana, but the document is stuck in translation limbo. The te...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the approval this week of two major oil pipeline expansions, insisting all the while that the new fossil fuel infrastructure fits within his Liberal go...

COLD LAKE, Alta. - Relatives of an Air Force pilot killed when a CF-18 fighter jet crashed during a training exercise near the Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary says he died doing what he loved. A stateme...

OTTAWA - Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett says she was personally embarrassed by the handling of a piece of legislation designed to change sex-based rules in the Indian Act. While speaking ...

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Nov. 30 --- NOTLEY TO HEAD TO B.C. TO SELL PIPELINE MERITS: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley will head to B.C. next week to promote Kinder Morgan’s Tran...

HALIFAX - A look at the history of Africville in Halifax: 1848: The first black settlers buy land in Africville, establishing the community as a home for African-Nova Scotians. 1849: Residents build A...

WASHINGTON - A vocal critic of the North American Free Trade Agreement will be in charge of the U.S. commerce portfolio, with the nomination Wednesday of Wilbur Ross, a billionaire investor who condem...

TORONTO - A Toronto jury is now deliberating the fate of a Toronto senior accused of murdering a fellow resident in a long-term care home and trying to kill another. Peter Brooks, 76, has pleaded not ...

ST. ALBERT, Alta. - An Alberta woman from a farming village of less than 500 people says she was surprised and stressed when she found out she’d won a $50-million Lotto Max jackpot. Lois Olsen o...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Latest on the death at the Cirque du Soleil show in San Francisco (all times local): 1:26 p.m. Officials say a technician with the Cirque du Soleil “Luzia” show who die...