Category Archives: Canada

VANCOUVER - Hydro crews on British Columbia’s south coast have restored power to thousands more customers who have been in the dark since last Thursday’s powerful wind storm, but many more...

MONTREAL - Yves Levesque, the mayor of Quebec’s ninth-largest city who was courted by the federal Conservatives for a 2019 run with the party, resigned from city hall Thursday citing health reas...

OTTAWA - A Canadian charged with smuggling drugs will be in court for an appeal on Saturday, China’s state media say. The Global Times, an English-language publication of the official PeopleR...

Chrystie Fitchner knows she made a stupid mistake, a one-minute mistake. And she feels she’s paid enough for it over the last eight years. The former Winnipeg high school teacher made headlines ...

MONTREAL - When Maxime Bernier, leader of the nascent People’s Party of Canada, recently appeared on a Quebec TV news panel, the pundits laughed at his suggestion that Ottawa could force an oil ...

VANCOUVER - Climate change is prompting glaciers in British Columbia, Yukon and Alberta to retreat faster than at any time in history, threatening to raise water levels and create deserts, scientists ...

OTTAWA - “We took a one-per-cent growth rate under the Conservatives and turned it into a three-per-cent growth rate. We created 700,000 new jobs over the past three years, and right now we have...

OTTAWA - When Beckie Scott left behind her competitive cross-country ski career in 2006, the Olympic gold medallist didn’t foresee the path she would take next. A dozen years later, Scott has be...

SUDBURY, Ont. - The provincial and federal governments have been short-changing First Nations in Ontario for more than a century, a superior court judge ruled last week as she ordered long-stagnant an...

WINNIPEG - Flush with party fundraising cash and facing two opposition parties still in rebuilding mode, Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister is not ruling out a snap election call well in advance of the ...