Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - More than 120,000 homes and businesses in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick were without power late Thursday after thunderstorms and powerful winds swept through the provinces. Hydro-Quebec ...

REGINA - A defence lawyer is arguing a decision to deny one of Hannah Leflar's killers entry to a rehabilitation program for violent young offenders should be reconsidered. The 19-year-old has pleaded...

VANCOUVER - Neither of British Columbia’s two main political parties are ruling out changing the province’s electoral system without holding a referendum. The New Democrats’ campaign...

CHILLIWACK, B.C. - British Columbia’s provincial court says three dairy farm workers from the Fraser Valley have been sentenced to jail for causing distress to an animal after an undercover vide...

MONTREAL - Emmanuel Macron’s election as French president was the best news Canada could have hoped for, particularly regarding free trade, Canada’s ambassador to France said Thursday. Mac...

SURREY, B.C. - RCMP say two men associated with a vigilante group in Surrey, B.C., have been charged with assault. Police say Ryan LaForge is charged with one count of assault and one count of utterin...

EDMONTON - Police in Edmonton have issued Canada-wide warrants for two women allegedly involved in a national auto-theft ring targeting luxury vehicles. Police say the ring originated in Ontario and i...

TORONTO - Canadian historian and author Michael Bliss has died at the age of 76. The University of Toronto announced his death on its website on Thursday, but gave no cause of death. It said details o...

EDMONTON - Transport Minister Marc Garneau rolled into Alberta on Thursday to promote his bill that aims to help modernize Canada’s freight rail industry. After getting his photograph taken near...

Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard is scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week during a visit to the country that will include a brief stop in the Palestinian territor...