Category Archives: Canada

SURREY, B.C. - Laura and Jen O’Connor got married for all the romantic, fairy-tale reasons: after seven years together, they were deeply in love and wanted to start a family. But on another leve...

OTTAWA - The share of the population that can speak both of Canada’s official languages hit an all-time high in 2016, Statistics Canada reported Wednesday in its latest batch of census numbers -...

TORONTO - With their only child grown up with a family of her own, Louise Hutchison and Dave Sharp were enjoying the freedom of being empty-nesters: travelling, getting together with friends and, of c...

OTTAWA - Highlights from Wednesday’s latest batch of data from the 2016 census, this one focused on families, households, marital status and language: - The Canadian household averaged just 2.4 ...

OTTAWA - Couples without kids are outpacing their procreating counterparts, same-sex relationships are blossoming, multiple generations are living under the same roof and more people than ever are liv...

HALIFAX - The mental health expert who looked into a spate of Cape Breton teen suicides says authorities have to look beyond bullying in their response. “I think there is this tendency to assume...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The first North Atlantic right whale to turn up dead in the Gulf of St. Lawrence was a 10-year-old male, back on June 7. Researchers had spotted it just six weeks earlier in C...

Five stories in the news for Wednesday, Aug. 2 --- LATEST BATCH OF CENSUS DATA OUT TODAY Statistics Canada will shine a light today on Canadian families, how they live and the languages they speak, in...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government is beefing up its team in the United States as it prepares a full court press to defend Canada’s interests in the looming renegotiation of the North American Free...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The federal Department of Fisheries has confirmed that yet another North Atlantic right whale has been found dead in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. In all, the carcasses of 10 of t...