Category Archives: Canada

WINNIPEG - A Manitoba grand chief is asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to help a remote First Nation left in crisis after a fire destroyed the community’s only grocery store and band office. ...

HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia man who used a claw hammer and bat to bludgeon his common-law wife and her daughter to death in 2013 was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday without chance of parole for 18 yea...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government faced fresh accusations of misleading the public on Tuesday after the country’s top soldier said Canadian troops have been allowed to fire first in Iraq. Governme...

MONTREAL - An ex-aide to Michael Applebaum testified he wore a wire in an attempt to help police extract a confession in 2013 from the then-interim Montreal mayor. But Applebaum offered little in conv...

OTTAWA - An emotional Health Minister Jane Philpott, brought to tears by her own father’s experience with dementia, suggested Tuesday that the Liberal government plans to support a national stra...

A study suggests Canada’s attempts to set a price on carbon are being undercut by subsidies to the fossil-fuel industry. A coalition of four environmental groups have summed up tax exemptions, i...

HAVANA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Cuba on Tuesday evening, where the country’s president told him the island nation will not progress any faster than it already is. Cuban Preside...

TORONTO - The Canada-U.S. border is unlikely to see any thickening under president-elect Donald Trump despite the Republican’s protectionist campaign rhetoric, former American security czar Tom ...

CALGARY - The wife of a Calgary imam says he is being held in solitary confinement in Turkey and worrying about his well-being has been torturous. Davud Hanci, who has Canadian and Turkish citizenship...

CHOICELAND, Sask. - RCMP in Saskatchewan say autopsies have been completed on the bodies of a seven-year-old girl who was the subject of an Amber Alert and her father. Police say the investigation has...