Category Archives: Canada

The Canadian subsidiary of General Motors has tried to stop an autoworkers’ union from airing a critical TV commercial during the Super Bowl, but the union said it planned to move forward with t...

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives say they have taken down an attack ad that spoofed the famous “Heritage Minute” format. A party spokesman says the ad “was obviously intended as pa...

MONTREAL - Just before 8 a.m. on the morning of Feb. 10, 2009, David Fortin asked his mother, Caroline Lachance, to drive him to school. After she said she couldn’t, the teen didn’t insist...

WASHINGTON - A Canadian reader of U.S. news reports about last week’s trade talks with China could be forgiven for wondering: what the heck happened to Huawei? After all, the week began with the...

OTTAWA - A Liberal MP from Toronto has apologized for a tweet sent Saturday morning that many on Twitter took as a threat against Ontario Premier Doug Ford. Adam Vaughan said sorry for tweeting that p...

SURREY, B.C. - Police say they arrested a man days after he allegedly shot a transit officer in Surrey, B.C., on Wednesday. RCMP began looking for Daon Gordon Glasgow on Thursday in connection with th...

The bison bull was a long way from where he should have been - on provincial grazing lands in west-central Alberta instead of the rugged backcountry of Banff National Park. “We are considering d...

WINNIPEG - Lawyers and judges say a new court set to open in Manitoba specifically for people with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder could be a game changer. “If you have somebody who can’t ...

TORONTO - A Toronto police officer who was involved in a previous arrest of serial killer Bruce McArthur is set to appear before a disciplinary tribunal next week on charges of insubordination and neg...

SURREY, B.C. - Fatum Ibrahim is pointing to her nose and smiling ear-to-ear. “Nose,” she proudly pronounces, eager to demonstrate her expanding English vocabulary. Three years ago, a day s...