Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Thieves made off with a 50-inch TV, treasured family heirlooms and a carefully curated sneaker collection, but it’s their son’s plundered piggy bank that really upsets Daniel Hab...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil bristled Thursday under NDP questioning about a Liberal fundraising club that will hold an event this weekend at the governing party’s annual general...

TORONTO - Police say a doctor - who allegedly paid to have unprotected sex with a 15-year-old girl in his office at a Toronto hospital - is facing multiple charges. Toronto police say investigators lo...

TORONTO - A high school teacher who used a camera pen to secretly video female students’ chest areas did so for sexual purposes, but his acquittal on voyeurism charges will nevertheless stand, O...

OTTAWA - A BlackBerry QNX-equipped self-driving car hit the road in suburban Ottawa Thursday in what was billed as the first on-street test of an autonomous vehicle in Canada. The grey Lincoln MKZ pul...

BOTWOOD, N.L. - A murder charge was dropped Thursday against a Newfoundland man accused of killing a home invader last year. Gilbert Budgell was charged with second-degree murder in the shooting of on...

New York-based Nasdaq Inc. said Thursday it has applied to operate an exchange in Canada, a move that could bring foreign competition to a market currently dominated by the TMX Group, operator of the ...

TORONTO - Equifax Inc. is reporting that a third-party vendor the credit rating agency uses to collect performance data on its U.S. Equifax website was serving malicious content. “Since we learn...

EDMONTON - A campus group that staged an anti-abortion protest at the University of Alberta that sparked a noisy counter-demonstration by other students and faculty has lost a court challenge over how...

TORONTO - A Toronto waterfront festival that hosted an unexpectedly controversial giant rubber duck says it generated millions of dollars in economic activity. The Redpath Waterfront Festival says a s...