Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - There is an overwhelming national consensus that legal marijuana must be priced, taxed and made available competitively with the black market, the man tasked with leading the drug’s l...

Montreal police say they have arrested a man who was sought in connection with alleged drug offences in Ontario and was also on a list of most wanted criminals in the United States. They say they appr...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government has no plans to delete the name of Sir John A. Macdonald - Canada’s first prime minister - from anything under federal responsi...

SASKATOON - A statue of a parrot that normally adorns a Saskatoon restaurant flew the coop this weekend and landed atop a bridge under construction over the South Saskatchewan River. The bright-blue b...

VANCOUVER - Canada’s international trade minister is urging calm in response to renewed threats from Donald Trump to tear up the North American Free Trade Agreement, which the U.S. president des...

EDMONTON - The mother of a five-month-old baby boy who died in an Edmonton house fire says she is touched by the support she is receiving from everyone. Angie Tang says in a brief statement that she i...

Highlights from the news file for Monday, Aug. 28 --- PRIME MINISTER TO DISSOLVE INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS FILE: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the Indigenous Affairs file is being restructured and will ...

OTTAWA - A pair of relative political rookies - Seamus O’Regan and Carla Qualtrough - have been tapped to guide two of the federal Liberal government’s most complex and politically sensiti...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. - A native American band says its anglers have caught about 20,000 fish following the collapse of a commercial net pen rearing farmed Atlantic salmon in Puget Sound. The Lummi Nation...

OTTAWA - A United Nations panel says the construction of British Columbia’s $8.8-billion Site C dam should be halted until there is a full review of how it would affect Indigenous land. The reco...