Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - When heaving waters in the North Atlantic wrenched a string of massive steel pipes from a drilling ship off Nova Scotia’s coast, one of the 20-tonne sections of the plummeting coil str...

OTTAWA - Canada’s provincial and territorial leaders want face time with Justin Trudeau to discuss health care funding - and they want a commitment from Ottawa before they’re willing to ta...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is cancelling a plan to have former Bank of Canada governor David Dodge review the province’s balanced-budget law. The move is the latest in a series of Tory r...

TORONTO - BlackBerry addicts are notoriously loyal, but even they will have a hard time sticking by their beloved device now that BlackBerry Ltd. is outsourcing production, say observers who admit to ...

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Sept. 28 --- CARR HIGHLIGHTS PIPELINE BENEFITS: Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr is talking up the benefits of the Pacific Northwest LNG project in Brit...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says a record number of immigrants arriving in the last year helped push the country’s population to an estimated 36,286,425 as of July 1. The agency says the country ...

TORONTO - Bombardier’s CEO struck an apologetic yet optimistic note Wednesday as he described the company’s efforts to get two of the city’s key transit system projects back on track...

OTTAWA - Shimon Peres visited Canada countless times during a career that spanned more than six decades and included holding virtually every single position in the Israeli government. But it might be ...

OTTAWA - Some of what was said Wednesday following the death of former Israeli president and prime minister Shimon Peres: ___ “He was above all a man of peace and a man dedicated to the well-bei...

SASKATOON - Charlene Klyne lost her sight after a deadly school shooting in northern Saskatchewan and still has shotgun pellets lodged in her jaw and chest. Klyne was among seven people hurt in the sh...