Category Archives: Canada

Freda Ens says she was a baby when her birth mother sold her for a bottle of beer. The buyer was an unrelated man she would later call “Grandfather.” Her earliest memories include being se...

HALIFAX - At first, the story of the cheeky Canadian website that encouraged Americans to move to Cape Breton to avoid the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency seemed like a typical viral craze th...

WASHINGTON - Canadians watching the improbable presidential run of Donald Trump might be surprised to learn the role their own country played in shaping his story. Trump’s grandfather started th...

MONTREAL - The employer of a Canadian citizen who was kidnapped in September in Libya says he’s doing physically well after his release. A spokeswoman for the Montreal-area Aeronav Group added t...

TORONTO - Police are looking for two suspects after a 26-year-old Maryland man attending a bachelor party in Toronto was beaten to death. Investigators say the incident started early Saturday morning ...

OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau promised to empower his backbenchers and increasingly, the Liberal MPs seem to be taking the prime minister at his word. Twice on the same day late last month, dozens of them j...

HALIFAX - They have been deemed women without status for failings dating back to their childhoods, say their supporters. They have spent much of their lives in Canada, had children, voted and held dow...

OTTAWA - The head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service says he wants to make sure everyone understands the spy service did not deliberately do anything wrong when it kept potentially revealin...

MONTREAL - If Hillary Clinton wins Tuesday’s election, Canada’s relationship with the White House could soon be cast as a family affair, thanks to the presidential candidate’s well-d...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The premier of Newfoundland and Labrador confirms that flooding of a reservoir at the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric site is underway. Premier Dwight Ball says initial flooding w...