Category Archives: Canada

WASHINGTON - Canada is prepared to pursue a permanent settlement in softwood lumber within the North American Free Trade Agreement if the U.S. lumber industry keeps blocking a deal, Canada’s amb...

OTTAWA - Transport Minister Marc Garneau pushed back Thursday against suggestions the Liberals’ proposed air passenger bill of rights is too heavy-handed with airlines, saying the governmentR...

OTTAWA - Liberal backbencher Arnold Chan, whose eloquent, emotional tribute to democracy earlier this summer moved many in the House of Commons to tears, was remembered Thursday as a good friend, a wo...

GJOA HAVEN , Nunavut - The man who guided searchers to the wreck of John Franklin’s flagship may have one more surprise left up his parka sleeve. “I believe that Franklin is in a vault on ...

GJOA HAVEN , Nunavut - A tiny dot of fuschia bobs livid against the deep blue Arctic sea at a GPS point known only to selected researchers and the few local hunters who guard it. Anchored somewhere in...

HALIFAX - Two Nova Scotians have been charged criminally in unrelated horrific animal death cases - a man who allegedly drowned a litter of kittens in a bucket, and a woman who allegedly left a dog to...

OTTAWA - The RCMP illegally scooped up mobile phone data half a dozen times using controversial Stingray devices, the federal privacy watchdog says. An investigation by the privacy commissioner’...

MONTREAL - A drug used to temporarily reverse the effect of fentanyl overdoses will be offered free of charge in Quebec pharmacies. The province will follow the example of at least Ontario, British Co...

SAINT-HONOR, Que. - For Mayor Bruno Tremblay, the latest case of hateful graffiti in his Quebec town was the final straw. Sometime on Wednesday, “Ville Blanche” (‘White Town”) ...

TORONTO - Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne was considering her legal options Thursday after the Opposition leader refused to retract comments that she warned could lead to a defamation lawsuit. Wynne...