Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Members of Parliament broke into applause Wednesday after singing the new, gender-neutral lyrics to O Canada in the House of Commons, just hours after the change became law. The new wording b...

VICTORIA - A special prosecutor has been appointed after the mayor says threats were allegedly uttered against him and a councillor at city hall in Nanaimo, B.C. The British Columbia Prosecution Servi...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government is taking a second look at plans to sell 16 Canadian-made helicopters to the Philippine military as concerns continue to mount about how the aircraft will be used. The ...

WINNIPEG - The man accused of killing an Indigenous teenager and dumping her body in the Red River told police he didn’t do it, and urged them to search for a suspect who looked like the lead si...

FREDERICTON - It has been called the Ikea of the coffin world: A ready-to-assemble casket kit. New Brunswick woodworker Jeremy Burrill has been selling simple pine caskets locally for about two years,...

WASHINGTON - New Brunswick’s premier says he remains cautiously optimistic the United States will provide his province with relief from hefty tariffs on softwood lumber exports. Brian Gallant an...

MONTREAL - Federal Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr said Wednesday his government is ready to help the country’s newsprint industry after the U.S. Department of Commerce slapped a tariff on 2...

TORONTO - Ontario’s public broadcaster says the host of its flagship current affairs program will remain on the air while being investigated for alleged sexual harassment. TVO said Monday that S...

CALGARY - The head of Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd. has joined growing calls for the federal government to step into the dispute between Alberta and British Columbia over oil exports. Ian Anderson said We...

WINNIPEG - A Manitoba government backbencher is apologizing after calling asylum seekers a “drain on society” on Twitter and for retweeting posts that suggested Prime Minister Justin Trude...