Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - Oswaldo Garcia Padilla says he has experienced firsthand the brutality of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s regime Last February, masked men broke into the family home outside Car...

OTTAWA - The federal government intends to save the international heritage status of Canada’s largest national park by increasing staffing, better monitoring oil-sands tailings and artificially ...

MONTREAL - A man charged with killing his wife at a Montreal long-term care facility told a jury Friday he struggled to provide care as her advanced Alzheimer’s worsened. As he began testifying ...

Ron Joyce, who rose from a childhood marked by the Great Depression to co-found the Tim Hortons doughnut chain, has died at the age of 88. Joyce died Thursday in his Burlington, Ont., home with his fa...

TORONTO - A 29-year-old Ontario man admitted Friday that he left Canada four years ago to try to join Islamic State militants in Syria after harbouring increasingly radical beliefs. Pamir Hakimzadah, ...

OTTAWA - The federal government says diplomats visited Canadian entrepreneur Michael Spavor today for the third time since he was arrested in China in December on allegations of endangering Chinese na...

MONTREAL - A Quebec man has been arrested after allegedly appearing in a video praising Quebec City’s mosque shooter and expressing hatred toward Muslims. Provincial police arrested Pierre Dion ...

WHITEHORSE - An event considered to be the toughest dog sled race on the planet begins Saturday in Whitehorse. Thirty teams from Canada, the United States and as far away as the Czech Republic and New...

OTTAWA - The federal government is signing a new accord with the Native Women’s Association of Canada to ensure the organization can fully participate in efforts to improve Indigenous health, ho...

MONTREAL - Former SNC-Lavalin CEO Pierre Duhaime will serve 20 months of house arrest after pleading guilty Friday to a single charge in connection with a bribery scandal around the construction of a ...