Category Archives: Canada

WINNIPEG - Brian Evans has a front-row seat to the slow but steady, and seemingly unstoppable, erosion that is eating away at Winnipeg’s riverbanks. The shoreline of his property on the Red Rive...

Ottawa was sleepy and mostly congenial all week long - at least until Friday - with most MPs back in their ridings after Thanksgiving and cabinet ministers off cutting ribbons in far-flung places. Pol...

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for Friday night’s $16 million Lotto Max jackpot. That means the jackpot for the next draw on Oct. 21 will be approximately $25 million. The Canadian Press

REGINA - A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Social Services says despite a damning report by the Children’s Advocate over a baby’s death, they are continuing to work with the Saskatoon Trib...

WASHINGTON - Passengers and flight crews will be banned from bringing Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones on airline flights under emergency orders issued Friday by both Transport Canada and the U.S. De...

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump suggested some of his female accusers were unattractive and said of his opponent, Hillary Clinton, ”when she walked in front of me I wasn’t impressed.” It a...

Highlights from the news file for Friday, Oct. 14 — FORMER ALBERTA PREMIER DIES IN PLANE CRASH: Former Alberta premier Jim Prentice is one of the four people who died overnight in a plane crash ...

OTTAWA - Ontario MP and former veterans affairs minister Erin O’Toole is the latest to join the Conservative leadership race after opening his campaign Friday in Bowmanville, Ont. Here is the li...

TORONTO - Canadian mortgage brokers say they’re seeing a flurry of borrowers trying to pre-empt new federal rules that take effect Monday that will reduce the purchasing power of some first-time...

PORTLAND, Maine - The European Union is backing off a Swedish proposal to ban imports of American lobster into 28 member countries. Officials with the EU say the European Commission has informed Swede...