Category Archives: Canada

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, Sept. 12 --- NEARLY 700 CANADIANS BROUGHT HOME FROM CARIBBEAN: International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says 691 Canadians have now been flown ...

OTTAWA - The U.S. State Department has told Congress that it doesn’t have any concerns about the possible sale of 18 Super Hornet fighter jets to Canada, which it estimates will cost around US$5...

TORONTO - Audiences at the Toronto International Film Festival are used to the string of pre-movie announcements that traditionally unfold before the main attraction: requests to turn off cellphones, ...

RICHMOND, B.C. - Some councillors of a Vancouver-area city with a large Chinese population say they hope formalizing a policy of education and outreach will put to rest a divisive, decades-long disput...

A courtroom in Sudbury, Ont., will play host Wednesday to the rare sight of a sitting premier on the stand as Kathleen Wynne testifies in a bribery trial involving a former top adviser and a Liberal f...

WASHINGTON - It’s inauguration day and the loser of the last U.S. presidential election is daydreaming about being anywhere but here - she’s imagining vacationing on a beach, speaking with...

TORONTO - Suicide. It’s a word rife with stigma, an act spoken about in hush-hush tones or not acknowledged at all - and one that leaves family and friends not only bereft but reeling at the des...

AJAX, Ont. - A police force in southern Ontario says two of its officers are facing numerous charges related to an alleged local drug ring. Durham Region police say the officers came under investigati...

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia man convicted of criminally harassing his ex-wife says he created a revenge website to destroy her reputation because she insulted him in emails and had him deported wit...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia must jettison its “come from away” attitude that views immigrants as outsiders if it wants to attract newcomers to grow the province’s population and economy, t...