Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The European Union’s envoy to Canada says International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland’s controversial decision to walk out of talks last month to save the transatlantic free tr...

OTTAWA - Canada’s 150th birthday celebration will not include an outdoor National Hockey League game on Parliament Hill. The press secretary for Heritage Minister Melanie Joly said in a statemen...

EDMONTON - Sex crime charges against a high-ranking military officer have been dropped by the Alberta Crown. Lt.-Col. Mason Stalker was charged last year with offences including sexual assault and sex...

KINGSVILLE, Ont. - An Ontario winery has had to dispose of 250,000 litres of its product after someone deliberately tampered with tanks on the property. Provincial police say the incident took place a...

OTTAWA - The federal government will appoint a special ministerial representative to look at border crossing issues faced by First Nations. In a joint letter written in response to a Senate committee ...

TORONTO - A seven-year-old Facebook message has scuttled a conviction against a man accused by his ex-wife of sexually assaulting and threatening to kill her. In a decision released Friday, Ontario...

British Columbia’s efforts to launch a liquefied natural gas industry were given a boost Friday after Woodfibre LNG said it will proceed with its $1.6-billion project in the Lower Mainland, the ...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Staff at a restaurant in Kamloops, B.C., hope to reunite a customer with a very special piece of jewelry. A manager of the Earls restaurant in the southern Interior city says a gold a...

MONTREAL - One of Bombardier’s largest Canadian rail customers has threatened to cancel a contract over continued delays in delivering a prototype train in Toronto, handing another blow to the b...

SYDNEY, N.S. - An unlikely public spat that seemingly pitted a craft sale against several local legions over the location of a Remembrance Day service, drawing hostility and threats of a boycott, was ...