Category Archives: Canada

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The top Republican in the U.S. Senate says he asked president-elect Donald Trump to move swiftly in approving construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline that would allow ...

WASHINGTON - A feeling of dread is rippling through one particular group in the United States, as hundreds of thousands of young people fear they might have to hide in society’s shadows during a...

MONTREAL - A man charged in a series of alleged break-ins and sexual assaults at a Quebec university student residence has been released on bail. Thierno-Ourny Barry, 19, is facing 12 charges, includi...

MONTREAL - Leonard Cohen - writer, poet, composer, singer, renowned seducer and, for many, the epitome of cool - has died at the age of 82. His sonorous, tobacco-painted baritone was once described as...

NIPAWIN, Sask. - A crowdfunding page has been set up to support the mother of a seven-year-old girl who was found dead in a northeastern Saskatchewan home. Police had issued an Amber Alert for Nia Eas...

MONTREAL - A Montreal man on trial for trying to board an airplane with explosives-related materials in his suitcase told a judge Friday he strongly believes he was set up. Antony Piazza, an Iranian-b...

Some key dates in the life and career of Leonard Cohen: Sept. 21, 1934: Leonard Cohen is born in Montreal. 1945: Cohen’s father dies. 1951: He enrols at McGill University, where he goes onto win...

VICTORIA - The public may be used to seeing ice cream carts or beer carts at events on hot summer days, but not carts selling illicit substances. Victoria Police say they arrested a man pedalling a ma...

BELLA BELLA, B.C. - As crews prepare the daunting task of lifting a 30-metre tug that sank off British Columbia’s central coast, the local First Nation says the federal government is hiding info...

Leonard Cohen, who died at the age of 82, is being mourned around the world as a hugely influential singer and songwriter, as well as a poet and author. Here are some of Cohen’s written works: &...