Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - Puelo Deir, one of the grand marshals in this year’s Pride Parade in Montreal, was at city hall Friday and said he had no idea the mayor and police chief were going to apologize to th...

Montreal’s La Ronde amusement park says it has removed a carousel horse depicting an Indigenous man’s severed head in a bag. The move comes after several complaints, including one by a res...

VANCOUVER - A library user who returned cash found in a book has drawn the RCMP into a detective whodunit. Cpl. Richard De Jong says the mystery began July 24 when the unnamed book borrower returned a...

CAPE DORSET, Nunavut - Mounties are urging residents of a community in Nunavut to stop helping a wanted man avoid arrest. Police say David Mikkigak of Cape Dorset is a suspect in several crimes, inclu...

WINNIPEG - An investigation has found that a Winnipeg police officer who suffered a life-threatening leg injury when his gun accidentally discharged did not have his hand near the weapon when it went ...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A Newfoundland shipping firm is raising its fees, blaming higher costs because of federal measures taken to protect North Atlantic right whales after a series of deaths. Ocean...

OTTAWA - The environmental arm of NAFTA is demanding Canada explain what it is doing to stop oilsands tailings ponds from leaking into Alberta waterways. The request comes in a decision by the commiss...

HAMILTON - Police in Hamilton say 80 people are facing charges in a drug trafficking and firearms investigation. They say the operation - dubbed Project Phoenix - began in July and saw 44 search warra...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - British Columbia has extended a provincewide state of emergency because of wildfires that have scorched a record amount of land this season. Chris Duffy of Emergency Management BC sai...

FREDERICTON - A review of a devastating ice storm in northeast New Brunswick says many residents were ill-prepared for an emergency - and some responded to the crisis with fear and suspicion that put ...