Category Archives: Canada

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...

OTTAWA - A Conservative bid for an emergency debate on the Liberal government’s controversial small business tax proposal was thwarted Wednesday, but that does not mean they - nor the public - a...

OTTAWA - The third round of talks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement wrapped Wednesday with the spectre of a U.S. withdrawal by President Donald Trump looming ever larger, thanks t...

YELLOWKNIFE - A man has been rescued from a garbage truck in Yellowknife. RCMP say they received a call from a person who saw a man fall from a dumpster into the back of the trash truck early Tuesday ...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are working on an apology for the Canadian government’s decision in 1939 to turn away a boat of German Jews hoping to seek asylum in Canada, The Canadian Press has ...

OTTAWA - Legislation to crack down on driving or operating other vehicles while impaired would exclude canoeing and paddle-boarding while under the influence, a move that alarms a group promoting safe...

OTTAWA - Quebec businesswomen Isabelle Hudon has been named Canada’s new ambassador to France. She replaces former Conservative MP Lawrence Cannon, who announced in June he would be leaving the ...

CHESTERMERE, Alta. - A police dog on the hunt for two assault suspects managed to fire a handgun that had been dropped in a treed area east of Calgary. RCMP say the canine was not hurt when it set off...