Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Becky Marsh figures she’s slept an average of two hours a night since the Pyeongchang Olympics started. The diehard Olympics enthusiast from Spruce Grove, Alta., watches the Games dail...

Highlights from the news file for Monday, Feb. 12 --- BOUSHIE’S FAMILY MEETS FEDERAL MINISTERS: Much needs to be done to fix the way First Nations people are treated within Canada’s crimin...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says she wants progress within days from Ottawa in resolving a pipeline dispute with British Columbia, or her government will look at further retaliatory measu...

OTTAWA - A senior RCMP official says the national police force has sometimes assured private companies they won’t be prosecuted for dealing with hostage-takers on behalf of desperate Canadian fa...

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - A fugitive who evaded police as the “Bushman of the Shuswap” and later loved playing Santa and ran for mayor in his hometown of Williams Lake, B.C., has died. John Bj...

STRATFORD, Ont. - A driver in southern Ontario was charged with a fairly unusual traffic violation last week - travelling with a large, unrestrained parrot in her car. Provincial police were contacted...

MONTREAL - Canadian security agencies are voicing their concern about the proposed takeover of Aecon Group Inc. by a Chinese state-owned business, prompting Ottawa to order a full national security re...

HALIFAX - One of Canada’s oldest universities is embarking on a scholarly inquiry to examine its possible connections with slavery in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The study by the Uni...

OTTAWA - After a five-year battle with the Canada Revenue Agency, the parliamentary budget office is finally being promised the data needed to evaluate the amount of revenue Ottawa loses each year due...

OTTAWA - The federal NDP is not planning an investigation into how the party handled allegations of sexual misconduct against former MP Peter Stoffer - at least not right now. New Democrats have been ...