Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - It’s been a week of strategizing by all three federal parties, with the Liberal caucus talkfesting in Kelowna, B.C., the Conservatives meeting in Winnipeg, and the NDP leadership candid...

WATERTON, Alta. - A popular national park in the southwestern corner of Alberta was under a mandatory evacuation order Friday because a forecasted shift in wind was expected to heighten the wildfire d...

VICTORIA - Political observers were surprised Friday when Opposition Liberal member Darryl Plecas accepted the role of Speaker, despite earlier reassurances he’d given that he would not consider...

OTTAWA - Aung San Suu Kyi rebuffed three fellow Nobel laureates who tried in a private meeting four years ago to persuade her to speak up for Myanmar’s persecuted Muslim minority, The Canadian P...

TORONTO - A proposed plan on the sale of marijuana unveiled Friday by the Ontario government stirred a lot of reaction. Here’s are some quotes: - “I have made it clear that while I support...

OTTAWA - The federal government laid down an ultimatum Friday to the U.S. company that owns the only rail line serving the isolated northern Manitoba town of Churchill: Fix it or sell it to someone wh...

SYDNEY, N.S. - A 28-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder and robbery with violence in the death of a prominent Nova Scotia businessman. Jim Matthews - co-founder of a financial plan...

CALGARY - A Calgary man has been charged with impaired driving in the death of his own daughter. Police say a man was driving with two teens in a Jeep Liberty last October when the SUV spun into a med...

TORONTO - Five things to know about the much vaunted but secretive Avro Arrow fighter jet program that was scrapped in 1959: - The CF-105, known as the Avro Arrow, was a globally leading-edge intercep...

TORONTO - A somewhat beaten-up test model used in the development of Canada’s much vaunted but secretive Avro Arrow fighter jet has been found covered in zebra mussels upside down on the bottom ...