Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Air Canada says about 100 Canadians who had been barred by local authorities from a flight leaving Turks and Caicos will now be allowed to fly home. Hurricane Irma caused extensive flooding ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet are gathering in St. John’s, N.L., where they will look to the past before preparing for the months ahead and the second half of their mand...

SHERBROOKE, Que. - Lawyers began the difficult task Monday of finding 14 jurors who are bilingual, impartial and without any personal connection to the 2013 rail disaster that killed 47 people in Lac-...

VICTORIA - British Columbia’s minority New Democrat government says it is starting to build the province all residents want, tabling a budget update that promises to hire 3,500 teachers and buil...

TORONTO - Clients and advocates of storefront dispensaries say buying marijuana exclusively from stores regulated by Ontario’s provincial government will mean fewer options for medicinal users, ...

Six stories in the news for Friday, Sept. 11 --- CANADA LOOKS AT HELPING HURRICANE VICTIMS The federal government is sending a team to the Caribbean to determine how it can help the region cope with t...

TORONTO - The Canadian government is sending a team to the Caribbean to determine what help Canada can provide to victims of hurricane Irma. Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says the assessment team is ...

TORONTO - Canada’s prison system lacks the rule of law when it comes to the use of solitary confinement, a court heard Monday. A lawyer for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association called the sy...

TORONTO - Ontario politicians returned to the legislature Monday after a three-month summer break under the shadow of two Liberal trials happening simultaneously in Toronto and Sudbury. The Liberal go...

ATHENS, Greece - Canadian mining company Eldorado Gold, one of Greece’s largest foreign investors, said Monday it planned to suspend investment at its mines in Greece following what it said are ...