Category Archives: Canada

WASHINGTON - In one of several testy exchanges during a U.S. Senate hearing this week, the country’s secretary of homeland security was pressed to explain a new policy that allows customs agents...

HALIFAX - Opposition critics fired back Thursday after Premier Stephen McNeil said previous Nova Scotia governments did “zero” to address doctor shortages. McNeil defended his government&#...

MONTREAL - The Crown has filed an appeal against a Montreal woman found not guilty on terror-related charges. A jury acquitted Sabrine Djermane last December of attempting to leave Canada to commit a ...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s environment minister says he’s “seriously considering” enacting a province-wide ban on plastic shopping bags - a move that would make it the first provi...

Local news fans dismayed by the closing of the daily newspaper in Orillia, Ont., are pledging by the dozens to donate $5 a month to a just-launched news website called OrilliaMatters.com, part of a gr...

HALIFAX - Christopher Garnier, who strangled Nova Scotia police officer Catherine Campbell and then used a green bin to dispose of her body, is appealing his conviction. In December, a 12-member jury ...

VANCOUVER - WestJet (TSX:WJA) has filed an appeal after the Supreme Court of British Columbia refused to throw out a proposed class-action lawsuit that accuses the company of fostering a corporate cul...

VANCOUVER - A defence lawyer for a former British Columbia government communications director says his client had “an enthusiasm for recklessness” but accepts responsibility for partisan w...

TORONTO - The University of Toronto is stepping up efforts to lure top global scholars by slashing tuition fees for most international PhD students. Starting this fall, the university says most intern...

EDMONTON - Scientists have figured out how hydraulic fracking causes earthquakes in northern Alberta, but they have a way to go before they can use that knowledge to predict if it will cause temblors ...