Category Archives: Canada

RED DEER, Alta. - A former Alberta politician has become the oldest Canadian to summit Mount Everest. John Oldring, who served as a member of the legislature from 1986 to 1993 after spending more than...

OTTAWA - Canada can no longer pretend it is a country rich with pristine lakes and rivers, the World Wildlife Fund said Monday in a report into the country’s waterways. After four years of resea...

MEADOW LAKE, Sask. - A sentencing hearing is to resume Tuesday for a teen who killed four people and injured seven in a shooting in La Loche, Sask., in January 2016. The shooting happened at a home in...

BURNABY, B.C. - A coalition of interest groups is calling on Canada’s six biggest banks and others to back away from providing funding for Kinder Morgan Canada’s controversial Trans Mounta...

HALIFAX - Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan will roll out more details today about Ottawa’s spending plans for the Royal Canadian Navy. Sajjan is expected to highlight investments in capabilities a...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s governing Liberals have retained every seat they won in the May 30 election, after a third judicial recount Monday confirmed a tight win on the province’s south sho...

Nine stories in the news for Monday, June 12 --- CANADA’S MEDICATION COSTS SECOND HIGHEST IN STUDY A new study says Canada had the second-highest medication costs for common conditions such as h...

OTTAWA - A court hearing begins today that will determine how long grievously ill Canadians must wait to find out if their right to a medically assisted death has been violated by the federal governme...

OTTAWA - New Democrats are proposing a change to parliamentary rules aimed at ensuring only non-partisan individuals become the independent watchdogs who oversee crucial activities such as government ...

HALIFAX - A Halifax university student is not a “criminal mastermind” and the Crown has twisted evidence in the case to fit its theory that William Sandeson murdered Taylor Samson during a...