Category Archives: Canada

EDMONTON - Scientists at the University of Alberta are celebrating Canada’s 150th birthday on a nanoscale. They believe they have created the world’s smallest sculpture of a maple leaf, me...

VANCOUVER - Snow, rain and heat don’t stop mail carriers from making deliveries, but Canada Post draws the line at crows. The Crown corporation has stopped delivery to several homes on Vancouver...

TORONTO - A proposal to bury tonnes of radioactive waste in a bunker near Lake Huron has moved a step toward a decision on whether the multibillion-dollar project can proceed. Federal authorities say ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insisted Tuesday that his Liberal government has been keeping its promise to be fiscally responsible and blamed the previous Conservative administration for bein...

BARRIE, Ont. - Police say they’ve recovered a puppy stolen from a central Ontario pet shop, but are still looking for four kittens taken during the same break-in. They say video surveillance cau...

OTTAWA - Canada’s ambassador to France will be stepping down at the end of September. Lawrence Cannon took to his Twitter account Tuesday to thank former prime minister Stephen Harper for appoin...

Justin Newell was a prankster who loved to play tricks on his family, crack jokes and tell silly stories. But the 13-year-old transgender boy took his own life June 3 in a heartbreaking suicide, one o...

TORONTO - Brain scientists at a Canadian university are aiming to get a better handle on how sleep affects memory, problem solving, and other cognitive functions in what they are billing as the larges...

MONTREAL - Organizers of the Fete nationale parade are apologizing to people who were upset by the sight of black teenagers pushing a float carrying a white singer. Footage of the float from Saturday&...

HALIFAX - If the Zim Antwerp, a massive container ship that will call on Halifax Thursday, were to stand on its stern, it would dwarf Atlantic Canada’s tallest building. At 349 metres long, the ...