Category Archives: Canada

The man who led the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that condemned Canada’s history with residential schools will now oversee a probe into a northwestern Ontario city’s police services...

VICTORIA - A Canadian yoga innovator who started working out of an old garage in Toronto more than a decade ago and expanded worldwide has died of a suspected drug overdose in Victoria. Michael Stone,...

EDMONTON - Alberta has become the latest province to cover the cost of a medical abortion pill. Health Minister Sarah Hoffman says Mifegymiso is now available for any woman in the province who request...

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - A Toronto-area man has been charged with a hate crime after police allege he made a number of statements against the Muslim community online. Police would not say what the alleged ...

TORONTO - The loonie hit 80 cents US on Monday, a level it hasn’t closed at in more than two years, against a weakening in U.S. currency and amid further signs of a strengthening Canadian econom...

VANCOUVER - For people who wish there were more hours in the day, spending a bit of money to get rid of onerous tasks would make them much happier, but researchers say very few actually make the inves...

MONTREAL - An official with a large Canadian producer of medical cannabis is confident consumers will be adequately supplied come next July, but says production will need to be increased. “Right...

CHARLOTTETOWN - A P.E.I. woman and her 12-year-old son were enjoying the beauty of an Island sunset and wading in the shallow waters of a beach she knew from her childhood when she said the sand sudde...

DIEPPE, N.B. - It was officially code-named Operation Jubilee and the allied attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe was a pivotal moment in the Second World War. But 75 years later, a battle is ...

TORONTO - Ontario is considering mandating the public disclosure of any payments private drug companies make to doctors, a move that would make it the first province to have such a requirement. The pr...