Category Archives: Canada

WASHINGTON - NAFTA negotiators parted ways for the holidays without completing any chapters Friday, preparing to reconvene in the new year for what could be a pressure-cooker period of bargaining thro...

OTTAWA - It was a night of sticky ice, last-minute player signings and a disappointingly small crowd. The glitches that marred the NHL’s debut seem mere footnotes now as the world’s premie...

Hunter Harrison, the bombastic former head of both major Canadian railways and current president and CEO of CSX Corp. is on medical leave from the Florida-based railroad due to what the company called...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government says it won’t be reimbursing taxi drivers immediately for the loss in value of their pricey permits but will create a body to establish future compensation. Tran...

TORONTO - Nearly one-quarter of Canadian exporters believe they are negatively affected by looming NAFTA renegotiation uncertainty and are turning to creative solutions to succeed even if the free tra...

VANCOUVER - Drones are being used to assess the aftermath of the worst fire season on record in British Columbia. Nicolas Coops, professor in forest resources management at the University of B.C., say...

MONCTON, N.B. - A man from Pennsylvania who was driving a van that struck and killed a Mountie on a New Brunswick highway has pleaded guilty to driving without due care. Const. Frank Deschenes was hel...

Ryan Heavy Hand had been helping First Nations bring home ceremonial objects from museums for years, but this call from an institution in Oregon was a first. “The museum had a beaver bundle,R...

OTTAWA - The bitter dispute between Bombardier and Boeing will enter a critical phase next week, when the two aerospace rivals appear before an all-important trade tribunal whose ruling will ultimatel...

EDMONTON - Alberta has begun monitoring oilsands emissions from the sky. The province’s environmental monitoring agency is using airborne sensing equipment to measure the release of greenhouse g...