Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Last year’s federal budget unveiled a program to help eligible workers in 12 regions of the country hard hit by a downturn in commodity prices. Three regions were added in May. Here is ...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are looking for answers after the government’s program to help workers in hard-hit economic regions of the country blew past budget expectations, with spending now ...

OTTAWA - The portrayal of Canada’s diversity on television has improved over the last decade, but there’s still a lack of programming representing people with disabilities and the Indigeno...

BROOKFIELD, N.S. - Lydia Sorflaten flips through decade-old clippings showing how she and her neighbours stopped a nearby cement plant from burning tires at a kiln 500 metres from their tranquil Nova ...

ATHABASCA, Alta. - The body of a missing scuba diver has been found partially embedded in the mud at the bottom of a northern Alberta lake. RCMP Staff Sgt. Jeremie Landry says commercial divers were w...

OTTAWA - The military’s sexual misconduct response centre is poised to make the long-awaited jump to round-the-clock service, despite what its new director admits have been struggles finding and...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A nagging dread is keeping Craig Chaulk up at night. He lives downstream from the $12.7-billion Muskrat Falls hydroelectric development in Labrador. He’s among many resi...

BROOKFIELD, N.S. - Lydia Sorflaten flips through decade-old clippings showing how she and her neighbours stopped a nearby cement plant from burning tires at a kiln 500 metres from their tranquil Nova ...

Bryan Maynard says his grandfather, a Prince Edward Island potato farmer, didn’t start talking about retirement until he was 80 years old and had been diagnosed with dementia. At that point, wit...

SAINT-APOLLINAIRE, Que. - It was by the slimmest of margins that a plan to establish the Quebec City area’s first Muslim-owned and run cemetery was defeated in a referendum Sunday by a vote of 1...