Category Archives: Canada

A UN report that concludes a million species are threatened with extinction and that “fundamental, structural change” is required to halt a steep decline in the natural environment has les...

MONTREAL - Animal welfare officials in Montreal have added chickens to the list of abandoned creatures landing at their doorstep. While dogs, cats and rabbits are par for the course, it appears a rece...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A man facing child pornography charges for ordering a child-sized sex doll repeatedly told a St. John’s courtroom Monday that his only motivation was to replace his infa...

Three stories in the news for Monday, May 6 --- FEDERAL BYELECTION DAY NANAIMO, B.C. Voters are heading to the polls today to elect a member of Parliament in the B.C. riding of Nanaimo-Ladysmith in wh...

VANCOUVER - Retailers across Canada are struggling with a shortage of all cannabis, but there’s one product they’re especially desperate to keep on shelves: cannabidiol or CBD, a non-intox...

NANAIMO, B.C. - Voters in Nanaimo, B.C., elected the Green Party’s Paul Manly as their new member of Parliament, barely six months before October’s federal election. With about 93 per cent...

MONTREAL - Several hundred people formed a human chain around the Montreal courthouse today to protest the Quebec government’s secularism bill. The protest brought together a coalition of citize...

OTTAWA - Outgoing Liberal MP Andrew Leslie says lawyers have instructed him not to comment on reports he may be called as a defence witness in suspended Vice-Admiral Mark Norman’s upcoming crimi...

KITCHENUHMAYKOOSIB INNINUWUG, Ont. - The cause of a house fire that killed a mother and four of her young children on a northern Ontario First Nation had yet to be determined Sunday as officials worke...

FREDERICTON - Documents filed with the Federal Court show the former Harper government was concerned about the legal and political fallout from how it dealt with a New Brunswick potato farmer jailed f...