Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Brendan Richmond created a viral sensation with his hoser comedy song “Out For a Rip” in 2013, but he was surprised to recently find his popular catchphrase gracing the side of a...

TORONTO - The Canadian dollar soared to a level not seen in nearly a year Wednesday after the Bank of Canada announced it was hiking its key lending rate for the first time since 2010. The loonie was ...

TORONTO - The widow of an American soldier killed in Afghanistan has failed to show there’s a real risk former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr is hiding his money as a way to avoid paying peo...

VANCOUVER - Wildfires in British Columbia’s Interior mean only coastal and extreme northern and northeastern corners of the province have escaped a pall of smoke blanketing regions that include ...

RANKIN INLET, Nunavut - Nunavut RCMP say the death of a missing boy has been ruled a homicide. The 11-year-old boy, who police initially said was 12, had been missing for five days. Searchers located ...

TORONTO - A federal prison guard failed to capture crucial video footage that could have shown whether colleagues attacked a prisoner without provocation, an independent investigation has found. The p...

TORONTO - The mandatory minimum sentence of one year in prison for luring a child into sexual activity via the internet is unconstitutional, Ontario’s top court has ruled. In upholding an earlie...

MONTREAL - Charles de Gaulle may have made history when he shouted “Vive le Quebec libre” from the balcony of Montreal’s city hall in 1967, but 50 years later the city doesn’t ...

Jim Wilder was a young researcher on the frozen Beaufort Sea when he had his first polar bear encounter. “We were camped out on the sea ice in front of a maternal den waiting for (mama bear) to ...

TORONTO - Tarek Mnaimne has been considering dipping his toes into the Canadian real estate market, particularly in Toronto or Montreal, but the rate hike from the central bank is giving him pause. &#...