Category Archives: Canada

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. - Marilyn Harding cries as she talks about her late husband and his death from pancreatic cancer five years after retiring from a three-decade career at the General Electric factory...

OTTAWA - Federal officials have advised Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale to put the brakes on setting up a publicly accessible database of high-risk child sex offenders. The previous Conservative ...

OTTAWA - Opposition parties and international legal experts are calling on Ottawa to say what it plans to do about three UN drug treaties that pose a conundrum for the Liberal government and its plans...

Five stories in the news for Friday, June 2 --- CANADA ‘DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED’ IN U.S. CLIMATE DECISION Canada’s environment minister says the world will continue marching toward a gre...

CALGARY - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says the NDP would welcome anyone who feels like they wouldn’t have a political home in the United Conservative Party. The province’s two right-lean...

WINNIPEG - The president of the Ghanian Union of Manitoba says a 57-year-old woman who died last week south of the border at Emerson, Man., was trying to get to Toronto to visit her only child, a daug...

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - A Saskatchewan woman who briefly dated Elizabeth Wettlaufer said she figured the woman was a bit off, but “I didn’t know she was that far off.” Sheila Andrews ...

MONTREAL - A private Montreal elementary school is moving to quell public fears following media reports about Karla Homolka doing some volunteer work there. The school, which is operated by the Sevent...

OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau moved quickly Thursday to slam the lid on a constitutional can of worms opened by Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard, who unveiled a plan to eventually secure recognition of his...

OTTAWA - Homegrown entertainers from the worlds of stage and screen will converge in Ottawa over the Canada Day weekend for star-studded festivities celebrating the country’s 150th birthday. Her...