Category Archives: Canada

REGINA - Retired police corporal Jim Pratt remembers standing on a road on the outskirts of Regina as a team of searchers walked through a yellow canola field. They were looking fo...

OTTAWA - Federal officials are considering expanding speed-restriction and no-fishing zones in the Gulf of St. Lawrence after six deaths of North Atlantic right whales in the ...

More endangered North Atlantic right whales are in trouble in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans says three whales have been found entangled in ropes in re...

VANCOUVER - Researchers with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans are cheering after spotting all three pods that make up the endangered southern resident killer whale population. The department sai...

CALGARY - Young basketball players from a southern Alberta First Nation will be able to play in a tournament this week despite a dispute with a Calgary referee group.   Truman...

MONTREAL - Laurent McCutcheon, a leading figure in the fight for LGBTQ rights in Quebec, died Thursday after receiving medical assistance in dying, his spouse said on Friday. McCutcheon had battled ca...

MONTREAL - The system as a whole - not one person or service - is to blame for lapses in the case of a slain seven-year-old Quebec girl who'd been followed by youth protection, according to an interna...

MONTREAL - Quebec announced tens of millions of new dollars Friday aimed at getting more newcomers to learn French. One of the Coalition Avenir Quebec's main pitches to get elected last fall ...

LAC-MEGANTIC, Que. - The sixth anniversary of the rail disaster in Lac-Megantic, Que., will be marked this weekend with events aimed at remembering those who were lost and recognizing how the communit...

CALGARY - It was a soggy start to this year's Calgary Stampede, but the sky lightened and the drizzle let up just in time for the parade that kicked off the annual 10-day celebration of western l...