Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau plans to discuss LGBTQ rights in a speech later this week at the summit of la Francophonie, where his audience will include countries that still discriminate on the basis of se...

OTTAWA - A by-the-numbers look at the Canadian Forces report on military suicides in 2015, released Wednesday: 14: Suicides involving men serving full-time in 2015 64.3: Percentage of that total who h...

OTTAWA - A former Liberal cabinet minister and leader of a major Canadian business group says Donald Trump’s impending presidency poses an economic threat to Canada that’s on par with the ...

OTTAWA - The federal government is moving to phase out a common neonicotinoid insecticide after finding that it accumulates in waterways and harms aquatic insects. Health Canada has announced a 90-day...

VANCOUVER - A timeline of events since allegations were made against author Steven Galloway, who was chairman of the creating writing program at the University of British Columbia: Nov. 18, 2015: The ...

EDMONTON - Alberta is changing how it produces and pays for electricity as it enters a new era of greener energy sources. Energy Minister Marg McCuaig-Boyd announced Wednesday the province is moving a...

MONTREAL - A group following up on the work of Quebec’s Charbonneau Commission says the provincial government isn’t doing enough to put the corruption inquiry’s recommendations into ...

MELVILLE, Sask. - A Saskatchewan junior hockey club is apologizing for what it calls a misunderstanding with a transgender girl’s family that hosts hockey players in its home. The Melville Milli...

WINNIPEG - A polar bear cub seen wandering around the northern Manitoba town of Churchill without its mother has a new home. The polar bear conservation centre at the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg ...

VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Aquarium says despite recent challenges, as staff cope with the death of one beluga whale and the critical illness of another, some new residents of the aquarium are helping ...