Category Archives: Canada

VANCOUVER - School districts in British Columbia are scrambling to hire thousands of teachers ahead of the new school year to satisfy a court decision that reinstates standards on class size. The Supr...

HALIFAX - It is where Haligonians watched “Casablanca,” “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” “The Graduate” and “Titanic.” The Oxford Theatre - a grand, standalo...

WINNIPEG - Many of the 3,700 people fleeing northern Manitoba forest fires were still waiting to fly south on Thursday, more than 24 hours after they left their homes on a journey made complicated by ...

HALIFAX - It is where Haligonians watched “Casablanca,” “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” “The Graduate” and “Titanic.” The Oxford Theatre - a grand, standalo...

TORONTO - Next week, a small team of Canadian volunteers will get into two vans, drive for two days to flood-ravaged Houston, pick up a group of rescue dogs from overwhelmed shelters, and head home. N...

HALIFAX - No criminal charges will be laid against five so-called “Proud Boys” who disrupted a Mi’kmaq ceremony in downtown Halifax on Canada Day, the Royal Canadian Navy says. Rear-...

HALIFAX - The former CEO of Atlantic Canada's biggest children's hospital still owes more than $22,000 for “potentially personal” expenses charged to her corporate credit card before she r...

OTTAWA - The captain of one of two Air Transat flights that was forced to sit for hours on a sweltering Ottawa tarmac last month said Thursday he considered keeping passengers aboard the delayed aircr...

OTTAWA - Gerry Ritz won’t enter the race to lead the Saskatchewan Party, the long-serving Conservative MP said Thursday, after announcing he’s leaving federal politics. “It is out of...

OTTAWA - The confident consumer helped drive across-the-board economic growth in the second quarter, giving the country its best start to a calendar year since 2002. Growth expanded at an annual pace ...