Category Archives: Canada

LAC-MEGANTIC, Que. - Four years after the rail disaster that killed 47 people in their town, a group of Lac-Megantic citizens renewed the call for the construction of a bypass that would steer trains ...

CALGARY - It’s going to be a scorcher of a Stampede. Temperatures are expected to soar above 30 C on Friday, when Calgary kicks off its annual 10-day celebration of all things cowboy, and hover ...

OTTAWA - Provinces and territories that want a slice of new federal infrastructure money will have to prove it will accelerate economic growth, under the terms laid out by the Liberals for the governm...

SASKATOON - A silverware set that belonged to Canada’s first prime minister is up for sale at a Saskatoon antique shop for the princely sum of $59,500. Chris Kinzel, owner of the Antique and Bra...

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia man says his son was in a “fragmented” state of mind just days before he hanged himself in a solitary confinement prison cell where he didn’t belong. R...

TORONTO - The body of a 15-year-old boy was pulled out of a lake almost a day after he disappeared underwater while swimming on a school-run camping trip in Algonquin Park, Ontario Provincial Police s...

OTTAWA - A legal challenge is being launched against the Canada-U.S. agreement that governs where people can make asylum claims on either side of the border. Three advocacy groups are throwing their s...

REGINA - A young Regina man convicted of stabbing his former girlfriend to death with a hunting knife when he was 16 will be sentenced as an adult. A packed courtroom burst into applause Wednesday as ...

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, July 5 --- CANADIAN COURT ASKED TO ENFORCE U.S. KHADR AWARD: Lawyers acting for the widow of an American special forces soldier have filed an application i...

HALIFAX - An organizer of the Aboriginal ceremony in Halifax disrupted by off-duty members of the Armed Forces on Canada Day says she is glad the military has apologized but she also wants a public ac...