Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Expectations are running high that next week’s federal budget will provide a more detailed federal strategy - and perhaps more cash - to help post-secondary students land real-life work...

The federal government has released a recovery plan for an endangered population of killer whales likely to be in the path of increased oil tanker traffic off British Columbia’s southern coast. ...

A Canadian vibrator maker accused of secretly tracking the intimate habits of thousands of its customers through a smartphone app has agreed to spend $5 million to settle a privacy lawsuit in the Unit...

HALIFAX - A Halifax-based law firm has launched a class-action lawsuit against Canopy Growth (TSX:WEED) and its subsidiary Mettrum over recalls of medical marijuana that contained unauthorized pestici...

MONTREAL - Canada’s lumber industry is in a stronger position to weather a U.S. trade battle than it was during the last major clash a decade ago, but smaller Quebec and Ontario producers would ...

SAINT-JEROME, Que. - During a two-month European ski trip in 1996, one of Bertrand Charest’s ski students built an igloo out of snow outside the chalet in order to escape from him, she told his ...

VERNON, B.C. - Vernon Mayor Akbal Mund says the city is working on a new plan to honour veterans after the Royal Canadian Legion rejected a proposed poppy crosswalk. The British Columbia city likened ...

TORONTO - Canadian home prices posted a record jump for the month of February, fuelled by the Toronto, Hamilton and Vancouver markets. The Teranet-National Bank national composite house price index ga...

TORONTO - The merging of two major weather systems will leave a huge stretch of central Canada blanketed in snow, Environment Canada said Tuesday. Meteorologist Mark Schuster said a system that was or...

CANSO, N.S. - It’s a 400-year-old Nova Scotia fishing village struggling to stay afloat - times have been so tough the town was dissolved five years ago. Now, tiny Canso is being touted as the f...