Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - The current vaccine for pertussis, or whooping cough, is highly effective during the first three years after children get their shots, but immunity wanes over the next several years, leaving...

CALGARY - Police say about 20 witnesses, including several members of the Calgary Stampeders, were interviewed following the weekend shooting death of their teammate, Mylan Hicks. A 19-year-old man wa...

TORONTO - A man is in life-threatening condition after being encased in hot tar that solidified during an industrial accident in Toronto on Monday morning. Rescuers worked for more than an hour to fre...

MONTREAL - Retired Canadian-Iranian professor Homa Hoodfar has been released from an Iranian prison and is recovering with family in Oman, her friends and colleagues confirmed Monday, four months afte...

FORT ELLIS, N.S. - Mi’kmaq protesters blocked access to a construction site near proposed natural gas storage caverns in Nova Scotia, saying the project threatens a tidal river that passes throu...

Four stories in the news today from The Canadian Press --- ROYAL VISIT CONTINUES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA TODAY: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visit British Columbia’s central coast today as they...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A Labrador West physician who asked a woman during a Pap test if she “liked big ones or small ones” has lost his medical licence for six months and must be chapero...

MONTREAL - The fight over Montreal’s contentious pit bull legislation comes to a head this week as city lawmakers are set to weigh the merits of the bylaw amid a last-ditch counter-offensive by ...

Here are details for Tuesday of the royal tour by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge: - Prince William and Kate travel to Kelowna in British Columbia’s Okanagan region, where they will mark the c...

BELLA BELLA, B.C. - Prince William and Kate’s tour of British Columbia was knocked off course on Monday as the royal couple braved bad weather to add a unique area of rainforest coastline to a c...