Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Former U.S. President Barack Obama said Friday that closing borders won’t create future jobs because what’s changing industries like manufacturing are automation and artificial i...

Highlights from the news file for Friday, Sept. 29 --- QUEBEC JUDGE HANDS NINE-YEAR PRISON SENTENCE TO ISIL SUPPORTER: A Quebec judge sentenced a man to nine years in prison for trying to leave Canada...

OTTAWA - Concern is growing that federal negotiators aren’t doing enough to protect the personal information of Canadians from prying U.S. interests at the North American Free Trade Agreement ne...

OTTAWA - Parliament Hill was itchy and irritated this week as the high-stakes NAFTA talks stagnated and latent battles over abortion bubbled up from committee rooms. Large delegations of Mexican and U...

TORONTO - Canada’s largest bank says a family of raccoons is responsible for shutting down a branch in Toronto’s west end. Royal Bank of Canada spokesman Mark Hamill says the branch was cl...

TORONTO - A man sentenced to 10 years after pleading guilty in a drunk driving crash that killed three young children and their grandfather will be eligible to apply for unescorted temporary absence f...

TORONTO - A Toronto police officer convicted of trying to kill a teen on a Toronto streetcar has had his bail extended into 2018. Previous bail conditions for Const. James Forcillo were set to expire ...

WINNIPEG - The lawyer for an Independent Manitoba politician is hoping a judge will agree Monday to immediately strike down a ban on floor-crossing so that his client, Steven Fletcher, will have the a...

OTTAWA - A Canadian special forces soldier has been awarded the Medal of Bravery in connection with a deadly friendly fire incident in Iraq in 2015 that killed one of his comrades. Gov. Gen. David Joh...

VANCOUVER - A Vancouver woman invited to sing O Canada before a Seahawks game in Seattle says she will take a knee during the American anthem to support protesting NFL players and make a statement abo...