Category Archives: Canada

A look at news events in September 2023: 1 - Singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett dies at the age of 76. His song ''Margaritaville" was released in 1977 and spent 22 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. 4 - Ste...

A look at news events in August 2023: 01 - The last surviving miner from the October 1958 Springhill, Nova Scotia coal mine disaster dies. Harold Brine was 91. Only 19 of the 174 men working in the mi...

A look at news events in July 2023: 1 - Scores of forest fires burn in Ontario and Quebec, and the smoke drifts hundreds of kilometres into the southern reaches of the provinces and into the central a...

A look at news events in June 2023. 01 - Civil servants in Quebec are now required to speak and write exclusively in French while on the job except in certain cases, such as access to health care and ...

A look at news events in May 2023: 1 - Legendary Canadian folk singer and songwriter Gordon Lightfoot dies of natural causes at Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital at the age of 84. 1 - The largest public s...

A look at events in April 2023: 01 - The family of Vancouver radio personality Red Robinson says he died after a brief illness. Robinson began his radio career in 1954 at Vancouver's CJOR, and his web...

A look at news events in March 2023: 1 - The government of Greece declares three days of national mourning after a deadly train crash in the northern part of the country the night before. The country'...

A look at news events in February 2023: 4 - The U.S. military shoots down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina coast on orders from President Joe Biden. U.S. defence officials had been tra...

A look at news events in January 2023: 4 - Canada marks the first National Ribbon Skirt Day, after a bill to recognize the event every Jan. 4 passed in Parliament late last year. It was inspired by a ...

YELLOWKNIFE - A joint venture between arctic mining companies says it is offering assistance to workers who were aboard a plane that crashed in the Northwest Territories earlier this week. A statement...