Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - The CRTC is being urged to hold a public inquiry into the sales practices of the country’s major telecommunications service providers. The formal request to the federal regulator comes...

GOLDEN, B.C. - A pair of skiers from Spain have been released from hospital after they spent three nights lost in the British Columbia backcountry. RCMP Const. Spencer Lainchbury says Kicking Horse Mo...

OTTAWA - Canada’s problematic social security tribunal is in for an overhaul, with a renewed focus on serving the people who challenge federal benefit decisions instead of making them jump throu...

VANCOUVER - Consumers who receive a $25 Loblaw Companies Ltd. gift card intended as a goodwill gesture in light of the company’s participation in a bread price-fixing scheme may end up with less...

OSHAWA, Ont. - The sound of a blast followed by frantic cries for help rang out Monday morning as a fire tore through a home, claiming the lives of two adults and two children east of Toronto. A man, ...

REGINA - The Saskatchewan government says the sale of legal cannabis will be handled by the private sector with government oversight but it’s still mulling over a minimum age of consumption. Gen...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government is paying $233 million to settle lawsuits over extra costs related to the construction of two large Montreal hospitals, including one that is at the centre of bribery ...

TORONTO - The Toronto Zoo says a greater one-horned rhinoceros calf is its first newborn animal of 2018. The zoo says 13-year-old rhino Ashakiran gave birth to a male calf on Thursday after a pregnanc...

OTTAWA - Canadian companies are more upbeat about the future than they were three months ago with firms planning to boost investment and to hire more workers, according to the Bank of Canada’s l...

HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia man who lost two great-grandchildren in a house fire that killed four youngsters on the weekend says the father of the blended family suffered smoke inhalation but has come out...