Category Archives: Canada

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - The University of Lethbridge’s faculty association is speaking out against the suspension of a professor whose online comments about the Holocaust and Israel have angered Jew...

MONTREAL - Molson Coors wants to offer Canadians a wider selection of imported beers after closing its US$12-billion acquisition of Miller brands that makes it the third-largest global brewer. Several...

MONTREAL - The federal government investing in aerospace giant Bombardier is not a matter of if but how, Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains said Tuesday. “We want to be a partner,” Bains sa...

Ontario’s Law Society Tribunal has decided not to suspend the legal licence of a Toronto-area family lawyer convicted of a child pornography offence. It dismissed the application from the Law So...

GEORGINA, Ont. - Police in southern Ontario say they’re looking for the owner of a wayward herd of about 100 goats. York Regional Police say officers responded Tuesday to a report that approxima...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador says Paul Davis has indicated his intention to resign as party leader. Party president Mark Whiffen says the fo...

STEPHENVILLE, N.L. - Police in Newfoundland say it’s a first: instead of busting a guy trying to break out of prison, they’ve arrested a man for apparently trying to break in. Bay St. Geor...

TRENTON, N.S. - Police in Nova Scotia are investigating after a hockey player was seriously injured during an on-ice incident. New Glasgow police spokesman Const. Ken MacDonald says the encounter betw...

HALIFAX - After hours of unrelenting rain, the roar came so suddenly it woke Helen Kendell. She went outside at 4 a.m. Tuesday to find her daughter frantic with fear - and a “tsunami” of w...

OTTAWA - Canadian residential construction was hotter than expected in September as the pace of housing starts picked up nationally, despite a decline in Ontario. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. sai...