Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - An $800-million commitment central to the Trudeau government’s economic growth strategy is expected to be divvied up within the next few months among groups and companies that can persu...

CHARLOTTETOWN - P.E.I. is smaller than Algonquin park, and has fewer residents than Oakville, Ont., so it’s used to being overlooked from time to time. But Islanders are facing a fresh indignity...

EDMONTON - A little satellite built by a group of University of Alberta students will supply information that could one day prevent damage from solar flares. The AlbertaSat cube satellite, which is ab...

TORONTO - A garage owner will get a chance to argue before the Supreme Court of Canada that he should not be held responsible for the terrible injuries a teen suffered when he and a friend stole a car...

OTTAWA - Canadians can file their tax returns online again after the Canada Revenue Agency took the service down as a precautionary measure on Friday. Services returned to normal late Sunday. A notice...

A Facebook tool that helps students be more productive and keep track of assignments developed by a Victoria teen has gone viral in an unexpected place. Alec Jones, 14, says his chatbot, Christopher B...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Ultra curling fan Nathan Woynarski is going on five hours sleep, as he has for much of the last week. He is wearing a red heavy-metal band wig, blue tights and sunglasses - in...

TORONTO - The $7 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw was claimed by a ticket sold in British Columbia. And the draw’s guaranteed $1 million prize went to a ticket holder in ...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Residents in Newfoundland and Labrador spent Sunday taking stock of the damage caused by a fearsome windstorm that roared through the province a day earlier. Utility crews wor...

CHURCHILL, Man. - When the sun finally broke through a blizzard that lasted three days in a northern Manitoba town, a local leader said it looked like the moon. Churchill declared a state of local eme...