Category Archives: Canada

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

CALGARY - It was a scary moment for passengers aboard Air Canada flight AC130 headed from Calgary to Toronto after a small-engine fire broke out. The flight had to abort takeoff Friday and some passen...

OTTAWA - Immigrants accused of misrepresenting themselves in order to get into the country will continue having their citizenship revoked, according to court documents sent Friday by the Justice Depar...

Highlights from the news file for Friday, Oct. 7 CANADA GAINS 67,200 NET JOBS IN SEPTEMBER: The country’s labour force beat expectations last month by gaining a healthy 67,200 net new jobs, with...

SPOKANE, Wash. - The United States is ready to start talks with Canada to update the Columbia River Treaty. U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell made that announcement Friday after talking with Secretary of St...

WINNIPEG - A supervisor with a Manitoba indigenous child-welfare agency says her grandson has been apprehended by another agency and authorities won’t give her temporary custody despite her 15-y...

HALIFAX - Hurricane Matthew has forced a Disney cruise ship scheduled for a southern jaunt to divert to Atlantic Canada. The Disney Magic was to leave New York City Friday for the Bahamas and Florida,...

MONCTON, N.B. - New Brunswick’s Roman Catholic church is facing new accusations that several of its priests were involved in the sexual abuse of youth, including a lawsuit alleging the former ch...