Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - A slew of Canadians shared in “The Shape of Water”‘s leading 13 Oscar nominations announced Tuesday, including a best picture nod for a Toronto producer who called the film...

VANCOUVER - Some facts on tsunamis after a warning on Tuesday caused people in communities along the coast of British Columbia to head to higher ground: What is a tsunami? Japanese for “harbour ...

Investigators believe the person responsible for slaying a member of a notorious Ontario crime family last year was also behind the murder of a woman north of Toronto two months earlier, police said a...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government has clarified how its new policy on reproductive rights will apply to organizations seeking youth summer job funding - but it’s standing firm on its decision to d...

TORONTO - A 20-year-old man is facing dozens of charges, including seven counts of attempted murder, in what police describe as a string of unprovoked, random shootings in Toronto that narrowly missed...

OTTAWA - Federal briefing documents on the new Indigenous Services Department say Indigenous people in Canada don’t live as long, are more likely to end up in the child welfare system and are le...

HALIFAX - The abortion pill remains out of reach of most Nova Scotia women, because doctors still cannot bill the province for providing it. Last fall, the province announced funding of Mifegymiso, a ...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s school system is failing its students, according to a provincially ordered report that recommends all English-language boards be scrapped in favour of a single “ali...

MONCTON, N.B. - The federal fisheries minister has imposed new measures aimed at protecting North Atlantic right whales from entanglement with fishing gear. “Protecting Canada’s endangered...

VANCOUVER - Some residents along British Columbia’s coastline were woken by tsunami warning sirens early Tuesday morning shortly after an earthquake struck off the coast of Alaska. Here are some...