Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - University of Toronto researchers are launching an app today designed to collect transit data that can be used by the provincial and local governments as they make transit planning and fundi...

Five stories in the news for Monday, Oct. 2 --- MORE INFO EXPECTED IN EDMONTON ATTACKS Police are expected to update their investigation today into the weekend attack that left an Edmonton officer sta...

EDMONTON - Police have charged a Somali refugee who they say attacked an officer and ran down pedestrians with a truck - but are holding off on terrorism charges for now. RCMP Supt. Stacey Talbot, wit...

OTTAWA - “Through hardship to the stars” is the motto that will guide Julie Payette, the former astronaut who was sworn in Monday as Canada’s newest Governor General. Those words are...

QUEBEC - Coalition for Quebec’s Future captured the riding of Louis-Hebert in a provincial byelection on Monday, wresting away what was once considered a safe Liberal seat and a Quebec City-area...

SHERBROOKE, Que. - Train driver Thomas Harding knows he’s partly at fault for the 2013 Lac-Megantic rail disaster that killed 47 people, but he was following procedure and the tragedy flowed fro...

SEATTLE - A Vancouver woman invited to sing O Canada before a Seahawks game in Seattle decided to not take a knee after her performance. Arielle Tuliao had previously said that she planned to kneel af...

Arizona Coyotes forward Max Domi called for stricter immigration controls on Sunday in the wake of a violent attack in Edmonton. Domi is the son of former NHL enforcer Tie Domi and was born in Winnipe...

OTTAWA - He’s young, hip and brimming with charisma, a likable rookie with an eye for style and a robust following on social media who wants to be Canada’s next prime minister. Sound famil...

MONTREAL - It’s important to condemn both terrorism and Islamophobia in the wake of violent overnight attacks in Edmonton, the founder of a Muslim group said Sunday. Imam Syed Soharwardy says bo...