Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - Quebec’s immigration minister urged police to aggressively target citizens who encourage hateful speech on Thursday, in reaction to a spate of racist and anti-immigrant incidents in t...

CALGARY - A popular Rocky Mountain resort in Banff National Park was preparing Thursday to move out its guests to make way for crews fighting a wildfire raging in the nearby backcountry. Sunshine Vill...

TORONTO - An Egyptian man branded as a threat to Canada’s national security has failed in what could prove to be his final attempt at lifting the terrorist designation that has hung over him for...

TORONTO - High-level containment labs at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg are being expanded to allow scientists increased capacity to research some of the world’s mos...

EDMONTON - The organizer of an international horror movie festival in Edmonton has pulled an ad used to promote the fall event following complaints about the image. It showed two scantily clad women c...

TORONTO - A team of Canadian researchers and robotics experts say they’ve developed cost-effective technology that would allow power wheelchairs to drive themselves. Toronto-based Cyberworks Rob...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Hundreds of Canadian Armed Forces members will support the police response to devastating wildfires in British Columbia, bringing some relief to scores of exhausted officers on the gr...

CALGARY - Police in Calgary say foul play was not involved in the death of a man whose body was discovered in a clothing donation bin. A passerby saw the body sticking out of the bin outside the North...

OTTAWA - The Quebec shipyard at the centre of the RCMP investigation into Vice-Admiral Mark Norman is talking vindication - both for it and Norman - as it inches closer to delivering a new supply ship...

FREDERICTON - Melissa Shea had been married for more than two years but no matter what she did, she says it wasn’t good enough for her husband. She was stripped down emotionally and became separ...