Category Archives: Canada

Environmentalists and First Nations are raising concerns about a heavy oilfield in northeastern Alberta that may still be seeping water and bitumen years after the flow was first discovered. The field...

TORONTO - Experts are casting doubt that some major Canadian firms will follow through on threats to stop expanding their broadband networks after the CRTC lowered proposed rates to be charged to smal...

WINNIPEG - Health Minister Jane Philpott will meet Monday with families involved in two cases where babies were switched at birth at a northern Manitoba hospital in the 1970s, a spokesman for the fami...

LIMA, Peru - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and leaders from Asian and Pacific nations - so eager to cement free trade in the region - are leaving an annual summit facing an uncertain future about the ...

VANCOUVER - Every time she says goodbye to her five-year-old son, his mother struggles to explain why. “I just say, ‘The ministry is not allowing me to stay with you, honey. They’re ...

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $9 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. However, the $1 million guaranteed prize was claimed by a ticket holder in Ontario. The jackpo...

MONTREAL - Former Quebec premier Pauline Marois says she’s satisfied Richard Henry Bain will spend at least 20 years behind bars before being eligible for parole. Bain was convicted by a jury in...

Ottawa police say they’ve made an arrest following a recent spate of racist graffiti. At a solidarity event at a south-end synagogue, Chief Charles Bordeleau said a young man was arrested Saturd...

HALIFAX - A senior Turkish politician attending the Halifax International Security Forum says Donald Trump’s election could spell trouble for relations with Canada if a U.S.-based Muslim disside...

BELLA BELLA, B.C. - A dead humpback whale has been found stuck in equipment at an empty fish farm on B.C.’s central coast. Marine Harvest Canada says in a news release that the whale was found e...