Category Archives: Canada

Ottawa will retire the older DOT-111 rail tanker cars - the ones involved in the deadly Lac-Megantic tragedy - several months earlier than planned, The Canadian Press has learned. The tank cars will n...

OTTAWA - Hillary Clinton was determined to go skating. The First Lady, as she was called when she came to Ottawa on a February 1995 state visit with then-U.S. president Bill Clinton, had often heard a...

TORONTO - The family of a Canadian man they say is being held in Turkey on accusations he was a leader of the failed July 15 military coup is trying to get Davud Hanci’s wife and children out of...

OTTAWA - Britain’s envoy to Canada says his country will push hard for the speedy approval of the Canada-EU free-trade agreement despite the Brexit referendum decision to leave the 28-country bl...

LIVERPOOL, N.S. - The Outhouse Museum began as a request over an afternoon spot of tea. In the 1970s, Isabel Macneill invited Sherman Hines to her old house in a village on Nova Scotia's South Shore t...

PHILADELPHIA - A U.S. election that has already seen its share of drama witnessed a James-Bond-level plot twist Sunday - accusations of Russian meddling in the campaign. It’s a charge levelled b...

A Canadian Transportation Agency study says air travellers with severe allergies to peanuts, nuts or sesame seeds face little risk from other people on a plane who may be eating snacks containing thos...

TORONTO - Former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s legacy will be put to the test on Monday as voters choose who will inherit the late politician’s west-end ward at the heart of so-called Ford Nati...

TORONTO - An Air Canada flight that saw passengers stranded in Manchester, England, for two days landed in Toronto on Sunday afternoon. The airline said it will be in touch with the affected customers...

TORONTO - It’s a familiar chant belted out at summer camps across the continent, but the call-and-response uttered at one Toronto day camp on a sticky July day is hesitant, even shy. “I do...