Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - Canada’s softwood lumber industry faces average duties of about 27 per cent after the U.S. Department of Commerce slapped it with an additional 6.87 per cent in preliminary average an...

BARRIE, Ont. - Police say they’re trying to track down a man who allegedly stole a puppy and four kittens from a central Ontario pet store. Investigators say the animals were taken from the Barr...

OTTAWA - Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott has appointed Dr. Theresa Tam as Canada’s top doctor, the third person to head the Public Health Agency of Canada since its inception in 2004. Tam ...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government is waiting for more details after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday partially reinstated President Donald Trump’s ban on travellers from six mainly Muslim countrie...

Highlights from the news file for Monday, June 26 --- ONTARIO TO CALL INQUIRY INTO NURSING HOME MURDERS: The case of a nurse who murdered eight seniors in long-term care homes in Ontario will be exami...

WINNIPEG - The federal government is extending its Nutrition North food subsidy program to Churchill until the Manitoba town’s only land link to the outside world is restored. The subarctic comm...

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia man’s online communications show he criminally harassed his ex-wife and his hatred of her was so intense that he used their teenage son as a pawn, a Crown attorney...

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - RCMP in northern Alberta stepped in when some ducklings ran afoul of a Fort McMurray sewer over the weekend. Police say they got a call about the stuck ducks early Sunday mornin...

MONTREAL - Ottawa and Quebec announced plans Monday to invest $57.5 million over five years to continue to work together for a healthy St. Lawrence River. The partnership will allow for 38 joint proje...

VICTORIA - Two coveted political goals of the NDP and Greens were defeated Monday in the British Columbia legislature as the opposition parties resolved no bills should be considered until a confidenc...