Category Archives: Canada

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick’s auditor general conjured up the gory scene of hanging meat carcasses dripping blood next to ready-to-eat bologna and pepperoni, as she called for stronger measures ...

REGINA - Premier Brad Wall says he would like to make everyone in Saskatchewan an automatic organ donor unless they opt out. Wall said he wants to bring in a system of presumed consent for organ donat...

VANCOUVER - For the first time police in Vancouver have linked a fatal overdose to the highly toxic drug carfentanil. Officials say a drug sample was seized from an East Vancouver home where a 39-year...

MONTREAL - A battle is brewing in Quebec as Junex attempts to become the province’s first oil producer in a century. Environmentalists say they’ll strongly oppose the company’s (TSXV...

VICTORIA - About three per cent of residential real estate transactions last month in Metro Vancouver involved foreign buyers, a decline of more than 10 percentage points since the B.C. government int...

TORONTO - Police are looking for a man they allege sexually assaulted a 32-year-old woman outside the stadium after Sunday’s Grey Cup in Toronto. Toronto police say the incident occurred around ...

CROSSFIELD, Alta. - RCMP in southern Alberta have arrested a suspect after someone tried to break into a bank by driving a large tanker truck into it. Mounties from the Airdrie rural detachment were c...

TORONTO - Researchers at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children are poised to begin a clinical trial using cannabis extracts to treat children with severe epilepsy whose seizures can’t be co...

HALIFAX - Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie has formed a partnership with a prominent aboriginal leader to encourage corporate Canada to do more to promote dialogue and reconciliation with aborigina...

VICTORIA - British Columbia’s finance minister says a boost in personal income tax revenue contributed to increasing the province’s bottom line for the second quarter. Mike de Jong said in...