Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - As Nova Scotia pushes ahead with its bid to become a world leader in tidal energy, significant knowledge gaps remain - particularly when it comes to environmental monitoring of test turbines...

TORONTO - Voluntary sodium targets for the food industry have failed to significantly reduce the amount of salt consumers are getting in processed foods, suggesting additional measures are needed, Hea...

Toronto police say they’ve found the mother of a newborn baby boy who was allegedly abandoned Tuesday morning outside a commercial building. The mother is receiving medical care, police said, bu...

OTTAWA - Activities and projects that are considered to be anti-abortion will be ineligible for funding as part of Canada’s revamped national youth volunteer program. Prime Minister Justin Trude...

MONTREAL - Parti Quebecois Leader Jean-Francois Lisee is not pressing the panic button after several prominent PQ members of the national assembly announced Tuesday they won’t run in this year&#...

TORONTO - Grief counsellors were at a north Toronto school Tuesday to help students and staff cope with the news that a five-year-old girl had died after being pinned between two SUVs. The Toronto Cat...

MONTREAL - An iconic Canadian company with roots in printed telephone directories has shed nearly 18 per cent of its workforce in what may be its final attempt to remain viable in the digital age, say...

HALIFAX - A Canadian naval frigate left Halifax Tuesday to continue Canada’s commitment to Operation Reassurance, a NATO standing force meant to deter Russian activity in central and eastern Eur...

SYDNEY, N.S. - A Cape Breton man is facing charges after allegedly going on a rampage with a front-end loader and using it to shear off the front of a home. Police say 51-year-old Kevin Albert Morriso...

LONGUEUIL, Que. - An intense apartment fire near Montreal has left as many as 60 people homeless. Investigators believe Monday night’s fire started in a top-floor unit and was sparked by hot coo...