Category Archives: Canada

CALGARY - Former United States president Barack Obama will be speaking in Calgary later this year. Special events company tinePublic says Obama will take the stage at the Scotiabank Saddledome on Marc...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - U.S. Sen. Rand Paul plans to undergo hernia surgery at a private hospital in Canada because of injuries he suffered when a neighbour tackled him while he was doing yard work at his K...

WINNIPEG - A wildlife group isn’t giving up on a real-life wild goose chase. Staff and volunteers with the Wildlife Haven Rehabilitation Centre in Winnipeg have been trying for weeks to catch a ...

MONTREAL - Carbon monoxide levels in the hallways of a Montreal elementary school where 43 people fell ill Monday and required hospital treatment were as much as five times the level that usually trig...

WASHINGTON - The bitter debate about American security prompted Canada’s emissaries in Washington to prepare for another round of defending the world’s longest undefended border on Monday,...

MONTREAL - Members of Quebec’s three main opposition parties met with the justice minister Monday to discuss how to reform the way Quebec adjudicates sexual assault cases. The meeting came amid ...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to temporarily suspend a lower court’s bombshell ruling in a sexual-assault case that the military justice system is unconstitutional. A five-jud...

HALIFAX - More help is on the way for a Halifax-bound container ship that has been burning off Canada’s East Coast since Jan. 3. A spokesman for the U.S. Coast Guard says two more fire-fighting ...

MONTREAL - The impact of Alzheimer’s was front and centre at the opening of the trial Monday of a Quebec man charged with killing his wife, who was suffering from the disease. As jury selection ...

OTTAWA - A “beautiful soul,” a mother with extended family in the Netherlands and a dad beloved for his sense of humour were the people killed in Ottawa’s horrific bus crash last wee...