Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - Former Nova Scotia premier Darrell Dexter has received an appointment to teach a public policy course at Dalhousie University. Dexter, who was the province’s first NDP premier between ...

MONTREAL - The dean of McGill University’s Schulich School of Music says professor Eleanor Stubley, whose body was found after she had been missing for about one week, was utterly devoted to her...

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - Police in southern Alberta say a young boy allegedly abducted by his mother and taken out of the country three years ago is back in Canada. A brief statement from Lethbridge police...

HALIFAX - Five years ago, Melanie Mackenzie got pregnant. Her birth control had failed, and the then 29-year-old knew she didn’t want to have a baby. She wanted an abortion. “I found out I...

POND INLET, Nunavut - Inuit groups say their lobbying and traditional knowledge is behind a huge expansion in the boundaries for what is to become Canada’s largest national marine conservation a...

HALIFAX - A tropical storm moving up the United States east coast is expected to produce storm-force winds over the southern Grand Banks later this week, but will otherwise have little impact on Atlan...

A widely used pesticide is placing bumblebee populations at an increased risk of extinction, a new study from an Ontario researcher suggests. Nigel Raine, an environmental science professor at the Uni...

WASHINGTON - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland released Canada’s list of key demands Monday for a new North American Free Trade Agreement as talks get set to begin in Washington later t...

OTTAWA - The two Canadians killed in a suspected terrorist attack in Burkina Faso have been identified as Tammy Chen of Ontario and Bilel Diffalah, a volunteer for a Quebec-based anti poverty group. T...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso - Burkina Faso’s Foreign Ministry has confirmed that one Canadian is among 18 people killed in a suspected extremist attack on a popular Turkish restaurant. It says oth...