Category Archives: Canada

VANCOUVER - Dairy cows can be optimistic or pessimistic from a young age and their inherent outlook can predict their ability to cope with stress, new research from the University of British Columbia ...

QUEBEC - Staying true to its election promise, the new Coalition Avenir Quebec government announced Tuesday it will cut immigration by about 20 per cent next year despite labour shortages across the p...

Ottawa and Inuit groups say they’ve reached a deal on a vast new marine protected area in Canada’s Arctic that will directly benefit the people living there. The agreement makes the waters...

Calgary Stampeder’s receiver DaVaris Daniels described Tuesday how a confrontation outside a bar escalated to a glass being thrown and then the fatal shooting of his friend and teammate Mylan Hi...

FREDERICTON - A Fredericton man accused of murdering two police officers and two civilians in an August shooting spree has been found fit to stand trial. Matthew Raymond is charged with the first-degr...

OTTAWA - Leaders from several north-coast B.C. First Nations say if the Senate doesn’t approve a bill barring super-sized oil tankers from the region, their thriving but fragile marine-based eco...

OTTAWA - Canada will be ready to set tougher emissions-cutting plans when the Paris climate-change agreement kicks in by the end of 2020, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says. McKenna is headin...

PITT MEADOWS, B.C. - A father in Pitt Meadows, B.C., says the last thing his family expected to find inside a second-hand board game was a syringe and toxic glue. Mitch Selman says his six-year-old so...

OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says many Canadians have told him they are struggling with uncertain employment, a lack of housing and expensive medication - problems he told the party’s most ...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Multi-millionaire businessman Richard Oland did not have time to put up much of a defence when he was attacked in his office and killed by multiple blows that caved in his skull, hi...