Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - As Donald Trump continues to face backlash for blaming “both sides” at a deadly protest in Charlottesville, Va., celebrated author Salman Rushdie says he’s not surprised by...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - A Massachusetts hospital group says one of its doctors was the man killed by a bus while on vacation with his family in Vancouver. The chief executive physician at Baystate Health...

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Aug. 16 --- U.S. TALKING TOUGH AT NAFTA TALKS: NAFTA negotiations are underway and the United States says it wants major changes to the agreement, not mere...

CALGARY - A constituency association in southern Alberta is standing behind the area’s embattled member of the legislature who has resigned from his party’s caucus following a bevy of nega...

WASHINGTON - Early indications are pointing to a potential No. 1 issue for the U.S. in a renegotiated NAFTA: automobiles. What’s not clear yet is whether it will go from being important to being...

OTTAWA - A pledge by Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer to yank federal funding from universities that fail to uphold free speech wouldn’t apply to a decision by the University of Toronto to ban ...

VANCOUVER - The BC Centre for Disease Control is calling for the expansion of prescription opioids in place of contaminated street drugs as a way to combat the province’s overdose death crisis. ...

WASHINGTON - The foreign ministers of Canada and the United States have jointly condemned the racist-fuelled violence in Charlottesville, Va., with Chrystia Freeland adding that people have a responsi...

VANCOUVER - A former Canadian Football League star receiver who says he sustained “permanent and disabling” repetitive head trauma as a player has asked the Supreme Court of Canada to allo...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been getting a lot of attention from international media, but now the spotlight has landed on his senior adviser, Gerald Butts, and his dealings with a conte...