Category Archives: Canada

GJOA HAVEN , Nunavut - Full fathom five John Franklin’s ship lies and of its bones are stories made. With apologies to William Shakespeare, few shipwreck tales have seen as much sea-change as th...

OTTAWA - Canada has been reluctant to overtly blame Aung San Suu Kyi for the violence against her country’s Muslim minority because it believes Myanmar’s military is using it to undermine ...

SYDNEY, N.S. - Nova Scotia’s police watchdog is investigating the death of a 27-year-old man who fell from a highway overpass after officers arrived on scene to deal with a possible dispute. A S...

MONTREAL - Canadian home sales are expected to drop to their lowest level in three years in 2018, driven largely by a decline in Ontario, the Canadian Real Estate Association said Friday. The associat...

SASKATOON - Residents of Pelican Narrows in northern Saskatchewan have begun returning to their homes after being forced out of the community by wildfires at the end of August. Buses loaded up residen...

OTTAWA - The amount Canadians owe compared with their disposable income hit a record high in the second quarter as per capita household net worth inched lower. Statistics Canada said Friday household ...

FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick government has created a new Crown corporation to oversee the sale of recreational marijuana, and signed deals with two suppliers. Finance Minister Cathy Rogers said Fr...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Some federal politicians got a taste of Newfoundland’s storied hospitality when they wandered into the wrong home and were invited to stay for refreshments. Liberal MP S...

Five stories in the news for Thursday, Sept. 15 --- AMBER ALERT ISSUED FOR QUEBEC BOY Quebec provincial police say the discovery of a woman’s body in a home in Saint-Eustache, Que., may be conne...

Calgary city council has voted unanimously to put the public art program on hold pending a review. The controversial program has been a lightning rod for public outrage in recent years. The policy req...