Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - Staff at Atlantic Canada’s largest hospital has had to perform CPR in elevators and hastily erect brown paper room dividers due to spillover from a crowded emergency department, says a...

TORONTO - Canadian cuisine might include a mix of culinary traditions, but the food of one of the country’s founding groups is largely missing. An emerging group of indigenous chefs and restaura...

OTTAWA - The person tasked with policing elections in Canada has laid five charges against a Nova Scotia man over allegations that he violated strict limits on political donations. The commissioner of...

HALIFAX - More than a decade after racial profiling was identified as a festering problem among some police forces, it is now being addressed in another sector: retailing. After years of complaints ab...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Almost 25 years after a sweeping commercial fishing ban that devastated Newfoundland, northern cod are making something of a comeback - sparking calls that the fishery be expa...

VANCOUVER - An accident on a jump “well within his skill level” in British Columbia’s backcountry has left Canadian snowboarding star Mark McMorris with serious injuries. A medal fav...

HALIFAX - Scores of people clad in white gathered Sunday for a healing service in a community gym across the street from a fire-ravaged historic church just outside Halifax. The service was originally...

Hockey Canada says it will make it mandatory that children getting their first introduction to the game play on reduced-size ice surfaces instead of full-sized rinks. The organization which governs am...

FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick government is cutting the small business income tax rate to three per cent as of April 1. It is the third cut to the rate since January, 2015, when the rate was 4.5 per...

The Canadian Federation of Humane Societies says consumers want information about how the eggs they buy are raised, including the living conditions of egg-laying hens. Here are some terms: - Free Rang...