Category Archives: Canada

VANCOUVER - A sketch of B.C. Green party Leader Andrew Weaver: Age: 55. Born: Victoria. Education: Bachelor of science in mathematics and physics from the University of Victoria in 1983, a masters in ...

VANCOUVER - A look at some of the three main parties major promises in the B.C. election campaign: Liberals: - $157 million in new spending over three years. - A personal income tax freeze and new tax...

Thousands of Canadians across the country spent the weekend in a desperate struggle with rising floodwaters caused by unusually persistent rainfall. Quebec has been hardest hit, with nearly 1,900 floo...

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $25 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. However, the guaranteed $1 million prize was claimed by a ticket holder in Ontario. The jackp...

HALIFAX - In the first full weekend of campaigning, Nova Scotia’s New Democrats took aim at the Liberal government’s rocky track record with teachers. NDP leader Gary Burrill pledged to re...

SALMON ARM , B.C. - A elderly man is missing following an overnight mudslide in the southern Interior of British Columbia. RCMP say local fire officials responded to the slide in the community of Tapp...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration says it won’t be pressured by trade threats from the Canadian government, responding Saturday to a warning that the northern neighbour could start targeting...

CACHE CREEK, B.C. - Hope is fading in the search for a missing British Columbia fire chief feared to have been swept away in swollen creek has resumed, the community’s mayor said. Clayton Cassid...

MONTREAL - Thousands of French nationals who live in Quebec voted Saturday in their country’s presidential runoff between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. Nadia Camus, an election volunteer wh...

OTTAWA - A parliamentary committee studying Canada’s slumping media industry is struggling to finalize a long-awaited report that could, among other things, recommend Ottawa create a “digi...