Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The federal government has postponed a long-awaited update to Canada's corporate-misconduct provisions, including changes that could help SNC-Lavalin avoid being barred from lucrative federal...

VANCOUVER - A newborn calf in a southern resident killer whale pod has been spotted in the waters around Tofino, British Columbia. Department of Fisheries and Oceans marine mammal co-ordinator Pa...

OTTAWA - Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says it is "unfortunate" that a disagreement with the Philippines about Canadian garbage became an international diplomatic incident but she hopes it's ...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government launched a wide-ranging independent commission Thursday to look into youth protection in the province, prompted by the death last month of a seven-...

Six stories in the news for Thursday, May 30 --- TRUDEAU TO RAISE U.S. ABORTION LAWS WITH PENCE Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence are expected to discuss the ratifi...

CALGARY - The mother of a Calgary Stampeders football player told a sentencing hearing Thursday that she's angry her son survived the crime-filled streets of Detroit only to be gunned down in Can...

OTTAWA - Ashley Smith's mother and sister say they are furious with the Trudeau government for invoking her name in the rollout of a bill that purports to end solitary confinement in Canada'...

OTTAWA - The United States will link the liberation of the two Canadians imprisoned by China to its free-trade talks with the People's Republic, U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence pledged Thursday. Standi...

WINNIPEG - A judge told a Winnipeg man convicted in the killing of a woman whose body was found decomposing in a barrel that he deserved every second, minute and month of his lifetime senten...

QUEEN CHARLOTTE, B.C. - Cancer patients who need intravenous chemotherapy on the British Columbia archipelago of Haida Gwaii will now have to take an eight-hour ferry trip to the n...