Category Archives: Canada

Sophia Spencer hated it when classmates taunted her for her love of insects, but seeing them kill her pet grasshoppers for fun was even worse. Her first-grade peers couldn’t understand what she ...

CALGARY - The Canadian company whose proposal to build an LNG export terminal in Oregon was derailed by U.S. regulators last year has resubmitted its application for a bigger, more expensive project. ...

VANCOUVER - A driver in Vancouver needed just eight minutes to rack up more than $700 in fines and eight demerit points, all because of a reluctance to put down the phone. Vancouver Police posted a ph...

Ontario, Quebec and California signed an agreement Friday to create the world’s second largest carbon market, with their leaders dismissing naysayers and predicting that more provinces and state...

MONTREAL - A Canadian delegation heading to Europe will present a strong case for keeping the World Anti-Doping Agency headquarters in Montreal, federal and provincial cabinet ministers said Friday. T...

QUEBEC - Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne contradicted the leader of one of Quebec’s opposition parties Friday, saying he misunderstood their private conversation and shouldn’t have publicly...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will join hundreds of disabled veterans from across Canada and more than a dozen other countries in Toronto on Saturday to help kick off this year’s editio...

HALIFAX - A weakening post-tropical storm Jose could bring some gusty winds and rough surf to Nova Scotia as it chugs west. The Canadian Hurricane Centre says the system is forecast to drift slowly of...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - From early childhood, Gemma Hickey rebelled against wearing dresses and never felt female. It was a misfit sensation of not belonging that Hickey wants to spare other kids - s...

OTTAWA - Canada’s national annual inflation rate was 1.4 per cent in August, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may have fluctuat...