Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The Liberal government will introduce legislation Tuesday to repeal a Criminal Code provision on anal intercourse that critics and courts say is unconstitutional and discriminates against gay...

TORONTO - Two crew members of a Porter Airlines flight en route from Ottawa to Toronto were slightly hurt Monday when a plane narrowly avoided a mid-flight collision with what may have been a drone, t...

OTTAWA - Alternatives to criminalizing a variety of illicit drugs in Canada could result in lower rates of use and fewer harms such as addiction, overdoses and infectious diseases, says an internal fe...

NORTH CARIBOU LAKE , Ont. - A water main line in a northwestern Ontario First Nation has been fixed but the community will remain under a boil-water advisory until tests confirm there is no contaminat...

TORONTO - The Toronto police’s hate crime unit is investigating posters in the city that urged white people “tired of political correctness” and “questioning when immigration w...

A house boat built by an Ontario environmentalist has washed up on an Irish beach. The coast guard in Ballyglass, Ireland, says a note was found inside the vessel from Rick Small, the Thunder Bay, Ont...

IRMA, Alta. - A small community southeast of Edmonton is abuzz after learning one of its residents is a $50-million lottery winner. A retired woman from a farm family in Irma found out she’d won...

Media businesses everywhere are scrambling for new ideas to boost their increasingly fragmented and distracted audience Sky Bridges, chief operating officer of the Aboriginal People’s Television...

TORONTO - A new report says Toronto has the highest percentage of children living in poverty of any large city in Canada. The report, titled “Divided City: Life in Canada’s Child Poverty C...

TORONTO - Two gamblers who allege their privacy was breached are spearheading a proposed class action against an Ontario casino whose databases were hacked. In a notice of action, they also alleged Mo...