Category Archives: Canada

EDMONTON - Cash-strapped Alberta is banking on bad times getting better in a fingers-crossed budget that drips red ink but promises a hospital, new schools and more money for seniors and social servic...

REGINA - The lawyer for a family of an aboriginal man fatally shot on a farm says he’s disgusted by a resolution on rural crime passed at the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities con...

OTTAWA - Various King’s Family Inc. brand dumplings are being recalled because they contain egg, which is not declared on the label. People with an allergy to egg should not consume the recalled...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is set to introduce legislation to help police crack down on drivers who are high on marijuana. Justice Minister Heather Stefanson says the bill, expected Thursday, ...

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - A forensic psychiatrist has told a dangerous offender hearing that a Saskatchewan man who brutally beat a woman before setting her clothes on fire is capable of extreme violence...

AUSTIN, United States - Canadians shouldn’t be naive enough to believe any deal to exclude Mexico from NAFTA wouldn’t hurt the Canadian economy as well, says the Mexican consul general for...

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, March 15 --- CANADIAN MAN ARRESTED IN MASSIVE YAHOO HACK: A Canadian man of Kazakh origins has been arrested in Ontario as one of four suspects in a massiv...

LAKE LOUISE, Alta. - RCMP say two American snowshoers are presumed to have died in an avalanche near Lake Louise in the rugged mountains of Banff National Park. Cpl. Curtis Peters says two people from...

EDMONTON - The Wildrose party says with the government signalling more spending coming in Thursday’s budget, Alberta needs a panel of steely-eyed critics to cut costs, similar to the TV show ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump joined forces last month to promote female participation in the workforce, but the contrast between how their governments approac...