Category Archives: Canada

NEW YORK - How do you measure a chicken’s happiness? Is it in the way it runs for food? How much time it spends preening? To size up what might make chickens happy in their brief lives, research...

TORONTO - An expert in Canada-China relations warns the recent detaining of an Alberta woman over what authorities have called employment issues could signal a ramping up of low-level harassment as th...

Dave Phillips, Environment Canada’s senior climatologist, has been compiling Top 10 lists for 23 years and he says the weather is not as cut and dried as it used to be. Here are his top events f...

Choking from smoke, sweltering in the heat or cursing early or late snow, Canadians could be forgiven for asking just what the heck happened to the weather in 2018. “It was almost a smorgasbord ...

Four stories in the news for Thursday, Dec. 20 --- WOMEN’S HOCKEY TEAM ADDS VOICE TO SEATBELT PUSH Players with the University of Alberta Pandas women’s hockey team are adding their voices...

EDMONTON - For the first couple of minutes after the crash, no one on the University of Alberta Pandas hockey team bus knew what had happened. Captain Cayle Dillon heard a big boom and felt the cold. ...

KINGSTON, Ont. - Speaking to a small crowd of well-dressed Liberal donors, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke out against division and polarization even as a larger crowd of angry protesters was kept...

SYDNEY, Australia - Investigators in Australia have used photographs taken by a passenger and a witness on the ground to help piece together the last moments before a seaplane crashed on New Year̵...

NISKU, Alta. - More than a thousand trucks drove in a convoy south of Edmonton to protest the ailing state of the oil and natural gas industry. The convoy was part of a pro-pipeline rally featuring Op...

Montreal’s new span across the St. Lawrence River, which is scheduled to open in June, will be called the Samuel De Champlain Bridge. Federal Infrastructure Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne ...