Category Archives: Canada

POWELL RIVER, B.C. - David Repa recalls the shock he felt sitting down at a bank after selling his Vancouver business in 2013 and realizing for the first time how much of “a joke” his pros...

ASHCROFT, B.C. - Four people were found dead in a home in a remote community in the B.C. Interior, RCMP said Saturday. Officers found the bodies when responding to a request for a check at a home in V...

CHETWYND, B.C. - RCMP say the deaths of three people found in a Moberly Lake, B.C., residence earlier this month was a double murder-suicide. Officers responded to reports of a disturbance in a subdiv...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Although Edna Manitowabi did not know author and journalist Richard Wagamese well, she knew the power of his words. The Ojibway elder and professor emeritus at Trent University in Pet...

HALIFAX - A Halifax man has been charged with assault after he became enraged by a fellow pedestrian distracted by her cellphone, police say. Halifax Regional Police said the man punched the woman to ...

OTTAWA - Labour Minister Patty Hajdu said even wealthier women need more support when it comes to moving from their careers into motherhood - and back again. The 2017 budget extended parental leave to...

UCLUELET, B.C. - A popular section of a national park on Vancouver Island that was closed following a wolf attack last week has re-opened. Parks Canada says Wickaninnish Beach in Pacific Rim National ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not ruling out sending troops to a peacekeeping mission this year, even though Canada has not yet told the United Nations what it is up to. “We have a d...

OTTAWA - It’s been dubbed the innovation-and-skills budget, the feminist budget, the do-nothing budget, the do-it-later budget, the wait-and-see budget. Whether or not you think the 278-page emp...

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $15 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. The jackpot for the next draw on March 31 will be approximately $24 million. The Canadian Press