Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - The $20.5 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw was won by a single ticket purchased in Ontario. The draw’s $1 million guaranteed prize also went to an Ontario ticke...

ATIKOKAN, Ont. - Three people have been killed and a fourth injured in a single vehicle crash in northern Ontario. Investigators with the OPP’s Atikokan detachment were called to the scene aroun...

WASHINGTON - An internal rebellion has erupted against Donald Trump, knocking out support from longstanding pillars of the Republican party and threatening to turn his presidential campaign into ruins...

WASHINGTON - The perplexingly persistent sluggishness of exports has slowed Canada’s adjustment to low oil prices, the country’s central banker said Saturday. The problem continues to conf...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Jean-Francois Lisee’s election as Parti Quebecois leader represents a victory for “the nationalism of exclusion,” Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard said Saturday...

MONTREAL - Can artificial intelligence be used to help predict water quality? Could an app for fishermen help signal the presence of invasive species? Technology, and how it can help save one of North...

BATHURST, N.B. - A community college in New Brunswick is offering a course in horticulture tailored to equip students with the skills to work in a growing industry - marijuana cultivation. A school of...

TORONTO - Banning or limiting alcohol sales isn’t likely to reduce rowdy fan behaviour at large sporting events, a British professor who has researched hooliganism said Friday in the wake of a b...

OTTAWA - Is it a price or is it a tax? When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau inadvertently used the Conservatives’ favoured word “tax” to describe this week’s new measures on gree...

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $10 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. The jackpot for next Friday’s draw will be approximately $16 million. The Canadian Press