Category Archives: Canada

MUSKRAT FALLS, N.L. - Protesters who broke into the sprawling Muskrat Falls construction site are risking serious injury, the CEO of the Crown corporation in charge of the megaproject said Monday as R...

HALIFAX - Parents are being warned about the dangers of early specialization in sport, in a new campaign that says overfocusing on one-sport skills may burn out younger athletes. Carolyn Townsend, com...

TORONTO - Allowing long-term Canadian expats to vote in federal elections is not a Constitutional requirement but a policy decision that Parliament has the right to make, the government plans to tell ...

From the earliest days in Dennis Oland’s murder trial, the Crown faced an uphill battle to convince jurors that a precarious balance of circumstantial evidence added up to a guilty verdict. None...

TORONTO - The Ontario agency tasked with administering the first online literacy test to tens of thousands of high school students in the province last week says it was forced to pull the plug by an &...

TORONTO - The CEO of the parent company of Tim Hortons said Monday he plans to keep pushing with an international expansion of the coffee-and-doughnut chain despite softness in the quick-service resta...

TORONTO - Ontario’s highest court swiftly dismissed an appeal Monday by the man convicted of killing eight-year-old Victoria Stafford. Michael Rafferty was sentenced to life in prison in 2012 wi...

By the time Shayne Lund’s court case wrapped up this week, his lawyer had spent three years dealing with evidence relating to sex crimes against children and animals, wading through reams of gra...

MONTREAL - Health Minister Jane Philpott says the government intends to change the country’s Food Guide and overhaul food labelling rules as part of an effort to make Canadians healthier. Philpo...

OTTAWA - A Conservative senator who helped craft a report on the country’s obesity crisis is cheering the federal government’s plan to overhaul the Canada Food Guide, but wants Health Cana...