Category Archives: Canada

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick has become Canada’s latest abortion battleground, as a lobby group pressures the provincial government to fund the procedure at private clinics. The government said T...

OTTAWA - A pediatric doctor and a health administrator have been tabbed to examine how four indigenous men from northern Manitoba were switched at birth 40 years ago. Federal Health Minister Jane Phil...

OTTAWA - The Mounties have reached an agreement with China to try and halt the transpacific flow of fentanyl into Canada. RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson and Chen Zhimin, the vice-minister of China̵...

OTTAWA - Conservative leadership hopeful Kellie Leitch is proposing to scrap the CBC if she manages to reach the Prime Minister’s Office. Leitch, whose leadership campaign made headlines when sh...

LUNENBURG, N.S. - Work is underway to replace the heavy steel rudder on the Bluenose II, as the iconic schooner’s problem-plagued restoration finally appears headed toward a conclusion. Transpor...

HALIFAX - Ten Nova Scotia doctors are being investigated for irregularities in their prescribing practices for highly addictive opioids, as a monitoring system documents over 5,000 patients receiving ...

Shayla Bastarache was looking for a hairless, sphynx cat and thought she had found a good deal last month on Kijiji. A woman was selling sphynx kittens for $650 - less than half the cost from a breede...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq chiefs have accepted an apology from Premier Stephen McNeil for a controversial government legal brief that implied members of a First Nation band are a conquered p...

MONCTON, N.B. - Some of Canada’s most notorious dope-smoking louts will be brand ambassadors for a New Brunswick marijuana producer. OrganiGram Holdings Inc. (TSX:OGI) says TV’s Trailer Pa...

MONROVIA, Liberia - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in the midst of a two-day visit to Liberia. Here are some facts about his visit and the country: - Trudeau says Canada will provide $10 million ove...