Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - Despite an analysis that highlights the potential for billions of dollars worth of onshore gas in Nova Scotia, Premier Stephen McNeil says his government has no intention of lifting its ban ...

HALIFAX - The “tragic” death of an elderly Halifax-area woman has been ruled a homicide, but investigators say no charges will be laid because the 77-year-old suspect is not criminally cul...

CALGARY - The University of Calgary says it has no grounds to expel a student convicted of sexual interference of a 13-year-old girl in British Columbia. The administration made the comment Thursday i...

OTTAWA - Climate change could turn out to be the Winter Olympics’ biggest spoil sport. An updated research study led by geography professor Daniel Scott at the University of Waterloo says the nu...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A British Columbia man is back among the living after twice being declared dead by the federal government in a bureaucratic mix-up that began when his social insurance number was inco...

A northern Ontario police service that has faced allegations of systemic racism says it is forming a working group to help it reshape its diversity training, recruitment, communications and community ...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia is lagging on a highly touted initiative aimed at boosting East Coast immigration, filling only a quarter of the province’s available slots last year. Provincial Immigratio...

Toronto Furies forward Jessica Platt has come out as transgender, making her the first openly transgender athlete to compete in the Canadian Women’s Hockey League. Platt posted a message on Inst...

Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr cannot avoid a huge civil judgment against him by recanting the confession and guilty plea he made before an American military commission, lawyers acting for ...

Ford’s revamped Edge SUV will be assembled in a plant in southern Ontario, a move a union official said signals jobs will be secure in the region as the automaker invests in new technology. Ford...