Category Archives: Canada

REGINA - A Regina nightclub has pulled an ad promoting two-for-one tequila the night before Remembrance Day following an online backlash. The ad for Gabbo’s featured a background of poppies and ...

CHARLOTTETOWN - The low turnout for Prince Edward Island’s plebiscite on electoral reform - 36 per cent - means it’s debatable whether the results can be considered a clear expression of t...

VICTORIA - Ships off the West Coast could be forced to yield the right of way to killer whales as part of a federal ocean protection plan, says a Liberal MP. The $1.5-billion plan to improve Canada...

DAWSON CITY, Yukon - Sandy Silver, who took the Yukon Liberals from third-party status to a majority government in Monday’s territorial election, was being coy the morning after. “Does it ...

SURREY, B.C. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has committed $45 million in federal funding for a new building at the Surrey, B.C., campus of Simon Fraser University to advance research and innovation i...

WINNIPEG - An employee at the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease in Winnipeg may have been exposed to the Ebola virus after a tear in a protective suit was noticed during decontamination. Ebol...

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - The newspaper that serves Fort McMurray is bracing for more change six months after a wildfire forced its staff to flee the northern Alberta city along with more than 80,000 oth...

CALGARY - The lawyer for a man being retried after a judge’s controversial remarks in a sexual assault case has suggested his client’s penis size may have played a role in whether the woma...

TORONTO - They suffered more casualties than any other Canadian regiment on the Allied Western Front during the Second World War. Now, their stories are being told in the docu-drama “Black Watch...

WINNIPEG - An employee at the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease may have been exposed to the Ebola virus. Dr. John Copps says the employee was working with six infected pigs Monday and notice...