Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - European railway manufacturers Siemens Mobility and Alstom announced a merger Tuesday that leaves Montreal-based Bombardier Transportation facing a new “European champion” and a...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s Liberal government, which had promised to address the health care problems that dominated the spring election campaign, drew derisive opposition reviews by adding only $6...

PORTLAND, Maine - Researchers with the U.S. government and the New England Aquarium have developed a new model they said will provide better estimates about the North Atlantic right whale population, ...

OTTAWA - A new report from a bipartisan think-tank says the federal government should scale back its spending on water and sewage systems in Canadian cities for each community’s financial good. ...

REGINA - A Paralympian who was left paralyzed after a diving accident says she knew the injury was bad the moment it happened. Miranda Biletski testified Monday in Court of Queen’s Bench in Regi...

WASHINGTON - The vice-president of the United States has some less-than-complimentary words for Canada’s health-care system, which he accuses of certain “failings.” Mike Pence made t...

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia man accused of using his Facebook account to express support of “lone wolf” terrorist attacks has been acquitted of all charges. Othman Hamdan’s judge-...

ASQUITH, Sask. - An ice rink in Saskatchewan that had a signed Gordie Howe jersey stolen has received so many sports items it is having an online auction. The jersey - which was going to be raffled of...

CALGARY - The president of the Calgary Flames says the team is not swimming in money. Ken King told Calgary’s chamber of commerce Monday that the team has gone from a giver to a taker in NHL rev...

TORONTO - What does cancer feel like? Look like? For most teens, cancer is a foreign word, a disease adults may have to deal with but one most adolescents don’t connect with themselves. Not so f...