Category Archives: Canada

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The holiday season brings flashing lights and blasting Christmas carols to public spaces and shopping malls across Canada, making it a challenge for people with sensory disorders to...

OTTAWA - As the temperature rises in debates about separatist sentiment in the West and legally enforced secularism in Quebec, minorities and Indigenous communities alike...

In-The-News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Nov. 21. What we are watching i...

VANCOUVER - When Ravi Jain heard about the experience of an actor in Victoria who alleges she was denied an opportunity to audition for a role in "Les Belles-soeurs" (The Sisters-in-Law) because ...

John Mann, whose voice rang through countless Canadian celebrations as the lead singer of Celtic-inflected Spirit of the West, has died after a battle with early onset Alzheimer's. He was 57. The Calg...

OTTAWA - The country's largest civil service union isn't waiting for the prime minister to give marching orders to his new cabinet, offering up its own suggestions for government priorities in the com...

MONTREAL - Quebec's finance minister is trying to ease tensions between his province and Western Canada. In an open letter published Friday in the Financial Post, Eric Girard said his province&nb...

A group of Canadian volunteers helping with recovery efforts in the Bahamas say the harrowing story of a Canadian woman's death during hurricane Dorian inspired them to help rebuild a school wher...

CALGARY - Alberta's premier is dismissing concerns over a bill that fires the man who had been investigating wrongdoing within the United Conservative Party. Jason Kenney says he and other c...

Industry experts say the recent closure of the StarMetro newspapers in Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Halifax and Toronto comes at a cost to some communities that still rely on the free commuter d...