Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - Quebec provincial police say they have arrested a 53-year-old man in connection with a shooting at an upscale resort in the Laurentians region. Police say the man is scheduled to appear in ...

MONTREAL - Quebec's police watchdog says it has opened an investigation after a man died several hours after being stopped by police for impaired driving. The Bureau des enqutes indpendantes said in a...

WASHINGTON - He's the Kevin Bacon of modern American politics, a familiar shadow that seems to loom over or lurk behind virtually every major storyline playing out on the U.S. campaign trail and beyon...

MONTREAL - Long before the Plateau-Mont-Royal became one of Montreal's trendiest neighbourhoods, the area was home to a 19th-century botanical garden and zoo where Montrealers marvelled at the sight o...

VANCOUVER - The idea of relocating his community isn't one that Arnie Lampreau of the Shackan Indian Band in British Columbia's Nicola Valley thought he'd be considering when he was elected chief earl...

VANCOUVER - All climate disasters are not created equal and the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction recommends retreat in the face of only one type of threat. "In our opinion, retreat is not an ...

OTTAWA - To flush or not to flush? It is a question Canada's Competition Bureau says it cannot answer. Three years ago, Friends of the Earth Canada and lawyers from Ecojustice filed a grievance with t...

Hockey Canada has confirmed that Andrea Skinner, interim chair of the organization's board of directors, has submitted her resignation. Skinner assumed the role in August after the resignation of form...

MEDICINE HAT, Alta. - Incoming Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she will seek the southeastern seat of Brooks-Medicine Hat in a byelection, even though she doesn't live in the area. Smith, who won ...

MONTREAL - Andr Chagnon, a Quebec businessman who founded telecommunications giant Vidotron and later set up one of the largest family foundations in the country, has died. In a statement, his family ...