Category Archives: Canada

VANCOUVER - Parents tasked with preparing school lunches might reach for convenient packaged foods, but the author of a new study says kids across Canada aren’t eating enough nutritious food dur...

BURNABY, B.C. - Police say they have identified more than 90 persons of interest involving the homicide investigation of a 13-year-old girl found dead in a suburban Vancouver park. Marrisa Shen’...

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Restrictions on travel to British Columbia’s backcountry and bans on campfires were lifted in some parts of the province on Wednesday as improved conditions lowered the wil...

WASHINGTON - He can huff, and he can puff, but can Donald Trump really single-handedly blow NAFTA down? It’s more than fairy-tale conjecture now. It’s a question of practical importance as...

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Aug. 23 --- CANADA, MEXICO SHRUG OFF TRUMP THREAT: Donald Trump’s sudden threat to blow up NAFTA less than a week into its renegotiation isn’t ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has thrown cold water on suggestions the Liberal government wants to sign onto continental ballistic missile defence, or that it might send troops back into Afgh...

OTTAWA - Record-high spending forecasts for the old age security program show a need to rethink the age of eligibility, among other measures to keep it sustainable, the opposition Tories say. The chie...

WHITEHORSE - Residents of Whitehorse can’t be blamed for thinking the president of the United States had arrived in Yukon for a surprise visit as what appeared to be the presidential plane touch...

EDMONTON - Sluggish oil prices are forcing Alberta to dip into its reserve fund and look for more in-house savings to keep its $10.5-billion deficit from sliding further into the red. In his first-qua...

OTTAWA - Nearly 7,000 people have crossed illegally into Canada in the last six weeks, most intent on filing for refugee status. The surge this summer caps seven months of near-steady increases in the...