Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The federal government shelled out a record $75 million to cover the cost of medical marijuana for veterans in the last fiscal year - and it is on track to spend nearly $100 million this year...

OTTAWA - Former overseas hostage Joshua Boyle says he was concerned for his wife Caitlan Coleman's mental well-being the winter night she fled their Ottawa apartment in stocking feet, accusing Bo...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is putting the onus on provinces to work out any future national child care program. During a pre-election roundtable with the Toronto Star newspaper, the Libera...

OTTAWA - Lawyers for former Afghanistan hostage Joshua Boyle want a judge to toss out a charge that he misled police - one of several criminal counts he faces in Ontario court. Boyle, 36, has ple...

Massachusetts' attorney general is calling for political leaders in eastern North America to commit to stronger protections of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. Maura Healey addressed...

CALGARY - A panel looking into Alberta's finances says the province habitually overspends on its services and needs to get tough on schools, have university students pay more and force ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says China uses arbitrary detentions as a tool to achieve its international and domestic political goals. He brands that as a pressure tactic that is worrying no...

The family of a woman from Windsor, Ont., says she has died in the Bahamas as a result of Hurricane Dorian. A GoFundMe page has been set up to raise money to bring the body of Alishia Sabrina Lio...

MONTREAL - An Ottawa couple and their friends remained unaccounted for on Tuesday after being trapped in a northern Bahamas home Sunday when Hurricane Dorian battered the...

OTTAWA - Two leading Canadian activists say voters need to think about climate change as if we are a country at war against greenhouse-gas emissions. "There's never been a moment quite like this ...