Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Minister Jane Philpott says the Liberal government expects to reach a settlement in the “near future” with a First Nations family that’s been battling th...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswickers are getting a glimpse of how legalized marijuana may be sold in the province. Although the provincial government hasn’t yet announced a retail model, NB Liquor has...

SUNNY CORNER, N.B. - A New Brunswick RCMP corporal who was rebuked for publicly criticizing the force’s top brass said Thursday he was assigned to administrative duties for refusing to shave off...

OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau offered relatively mild criticism on Thursday of a new Quebec law that bans people from providing or receiving public services with their faces covered and asserted that itR...

CALGARY - The Calgary Zoo says it has successfully hatched several dozen greater sage grouse in an effort to bolster the endangered prairie bird’s population. The zoo says eight hens, six males ...

TORONTO - As Canadian cities compete with each other - and dozens of jurisdictions south of the border - for Amazon’s new $5-billion headquarters, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pitched Canad...

MONTREAL - None of the challenges facing Bombardier’s railway business - including the threat of lost streetcar contracts, a bribery investigation and a super-sized European rival - will derail ...

OTTAWA - The fate of a Somalian man charged with holding Amanda Lindhout hostage is now in the hands of an Ontario Superior Court judge. Justice Robert Smith reserved judgment Thursday after closing a...

A father and son who were badly burned while fighting a grass fire on their land in southwestern Saskatchewan are still in a Calgary hospital’s intensive care unit. The family of Ron Wedrick and...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s police watchdog has for a second time declared that Clayton Miller, a Cape Breton teenager found dead in a brook after a police raid on a bush party, died of natural caus...