Category Archives: Canada

WHITEHORSE - A reality TV star in Yukon has been ordered to pay $31,000 in fines for violating the territory’s Waters Act. Tony Beets was sentenced in Whitehorse last week after being convicted ...

The cocaine was hidden inside hollowed-out quartzite stones packed onto shipping containers coming from Argentina - the drugs were concealed so well that even police dogs couldn’t detect them. I...

TORONTO - More than 700 doctors, nurses, harm reduction workers and academics are calling on Ontario to declare opioid overdoses and deaths an emergency, as British Columbia did last year. The front-l...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used a mid-mandate mini-shuffle Monday to shore up his cabinet in two areas where his government has fallen far short of his soaring campaign rhetoric: veterans ...

OTTAWA - Repairing the federal government’s public service pay system is a top priority, the newly minted minister responsible for the Phoenix payroll service insisted Monday, just hours after h...

WINKLER, Man. - Police in southern Manitoba were at a loss Monday as they tried to determine why a 15-year-old girl was repeatedly stabbed inside the women’s washroom at the Pembina Valley Bapti...

CHARLOTTETOWN - A key ally of Donald Trump says Canadians should understand the U.S. president believes in free trade, and they shouldn’t read too much into what they hear. Maine Governor Paul L...

MONTREAL - Toromont Industries sees the $1.02-billion purchase of rival heavy equipment supplier Hewitt Group as a way to take advantage of government infrastructure spending and a recovery of metal p...

BELL ISLAND, N.L. - Alice Kennedy was well into her 70s before she ever saw the black, cold depths of the iron ore mine that sustained her family for generations. She took a public tour of the rocky l...

WHITBOURNE, N.L. - An eight-year-old boy is among four people who died after a head-on crash in eastern Newfoundland Sunday. Two SUVs collided on an undivided section of the Trans-Canada Highway on th...