Category Archives: Canada

MAPLE RIDGE, B.C. - A gender-neutral bathroom in a British Columbia high school is providing some chuckles with a lesson in hygiene. A large, blue sticker on the washroom door has an image of a person...

EDMONTON - A Canadian scientist plans to warn the world’s policy-makers they can no longer ignore that the effects of climate change on a type of tropical forest are already forcing mass migrati...

TORONTO - After returning from Rwanda, retired lieutenant-general Romeo Dallaire avoided Remembrance Day “like the plague.” The prospect of donning his uniform for a public ceremony, or ev...

MIAMI - On the first day she was eligible to vote as a new American citizen, Nancy Osores left home before her pizzeria shift, got on a bus and rode it to a place in her new country’s political ...

MONTREAL - Eight months since arriving in Montreal as Syrian refugees, Dania Saad and her husband, Samir Altabra, continue to receive monthly cheques of $1,000 from their private sponsors. The cash be...

MONTREAL - Statistics regarding Syrian refugees in Quebec: Number Quebec accepted in 2015: 2,166 (2,151 privately sponsored; 15 government-sponsored) Number Quebec accepted in 2016 (as of Oct. 10): 4,...

VANCOUVER - Students returning Monday to a B.C. high school where a Grade 9 girl was stabbed to death will need long-term support to prevent further tragedies years from now, says a mother whose son w...

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for Saturday night’s $30 million Lotto 649 jackpot. However, the guaranteed $1 million prize was claimed by a ticket holder in British Columbia. The jackpot ...

RED DEER, Alta. - Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Jason Kenney delivered an organizational show of strength at the party’s annual policy meeting Saturday. Kenney’s te...

EDMONTON - Alberta’s Opposition leader told hundreds of people at a rally against a planned carbon tax that the province’s oil belongs to them. Brian Jean stressed that no one at Saturday&...