Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - The North American-wide debate over who should pay for professional sports stadiums entered Montreal’s mayoral race on Wednesday. Valerie Plante, the leading candidate vying to replac...

Halifax Mayor Mike Savage says he’s “comfortable” a city block sold to a developer will now carry the name of a telecommunications company. Rogers Communications announced Wednesday ...

Toronto’s transit organization has apologized after inadvertently naming an upcoming emergency exercise after a notorious bombing campaign in the Vietnam War. The Toronto Transit Commission had ...

EDMONTON - Defence lawyers are asking the country’s top court to weigh in on the case of an Ontario trucker accused of murdering an Indigenous woman. Lawyers for Bradley Barton have filed an app...

SMITHERS, B.C. - The older sister of Alberta Williams, whose body was found in 1989 east of Prince Rupert, B.C., hopes a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women will help find the ...

TORONTO - Bargaining talks have resumed between General Motors and more than 2,500 striking workers at a southern Ontario automotive assembly plant. Negotiations initially broke down shortly after the...

OTTAWA - A soldier has been been charged with sexual assault and behaving in a disgraceful manner. The Department of National Defence says the alleged crime happened at a social event in December 2016...

VANCOUVER - BC Hydro confirms about 200 workers at the Site C dam construction project in northeastern British Columbia have been laid off by the consortium that holds the main civil works contract. A...

VANCOUVER - The Federal Court of Appeal has set aside a government decision approving the expansion of Kinder Morgan’s oil pipeline through the Coldwater Indian Band reserve south of Merritt, B....

VICTORIA - An investment dealer and former Olympic rower who went missing for nearly 18 months has pleaded not guilty to two fraud charges. Harold Backer was not in B.C. provincial court during a hear...