Category Archives: Canada

LLOYDMINSTER, Alta. - Police have charged a man who they allege confronted another man with a video camera and accused him of trying to meet up with a young boy in what is being called a case of mista...

Some 158 Canadian Forces personnel died during Canada’s operations in Afghanistan. Most occurred during combat in the country, but the official toll includes those who died elsewhere or from non...

LACOMBE, Alta. - Family and friends of Master Cpl. Byron Greff don’t want the 28-year-old to be remembered as a footnote to Canada’s mission to Afghanistan. On Oct. 29, 2011 Greff, who was...

EDMONTON - Former federal cabinet minister Jason Kenney has officially launched his bid for the leadership of Alberta’s new United Conservative Party by promising to stand up to Prime Minister J...

REVELSTOKE, B.C. - As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was asking Canadians to donate to the Red Cross to help fire ravaged communities and families in British Columbia, the residents of a tiny Caribou c...

PORTLAND, Maine - Wildlife officials are boosting a program to vaccinate raccoons in the wild in an effort prevent the spread of rabies in Maine and northward into Canada. About 351,000 oral rabies va...

MONTREAL - Maurice Filion, the former coach and general manager of the Quebec Nordiques in the World Hockey Association and the National Hockey League, has died. Filion, who was 85, died on Friday but...

WINNIPEG - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday the federal government is willing to use all options to force Denver-based Omnitrax Inc. to repair a flooded-out rail line that has cut off the s...

TORONTO - A Toronto man was formally handed a life sentence Friday after pleading guilty to the so-called “crossbow killings” of his mother and two brothers last August. According to a sta...

TORONTO - The union representing 700 striking workers at Canada’s busiest airport says the walkout has caused some significant baggage handling delays so far but management is calling it “...