Category Archives: Canada

The science community is keeping a wary eye on a Canadian research team’s claim of finding possible homes for life in outer space. The researchers from Universite Laval in Quebec City say analys...

WINNIPEG - More than 4,300 adults who have had open-heart surgery at the St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg since 2012 are being notified about potential infection. “The overall risk to patients ...

MONTREAL - Ride-hailing company Uber says it is scared it will lose drivers in Quebec because of what it calls restrictive and complex regulations in the province. Jean-Nicolas Guillemette, Uber Quebe...

Vancouver’s health authority has applied for two new supervised-injection sites to combat a drug overdose crisis that has taken more than 100 lives in the city this year. While announcing the ap...

BIG TANCOOK ISLAND, N.S. - A deer hunter shot dead on a South Shore island was Nova Scotia’s first hunting-related death since 2005, according to the Department of Natural Resources. The unident...

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - A 47-year-old man has been charged with multiple offences after a racist rant was caught on video in an Abbotsford, B.C., parking lot. A warrant has been issued for Karry Corbett of...

SHILO, Man. - Charges have been laid against a Manitoba-based soldier who is accused of trafficking in cocaine. The Canadian Forces Provost Marshal and Canadian Forces Military Police Group says one c...

OTTAWA - With the U.S. presidential election looming, Canada’s new trade deal with Europe should be seen as a showcase for how strong trading relationships are better than “building walls,...

MONTREAL - A Montreal journalist whose iPhone was monitored by police for months says he was outraged to discover he’d been “spied on” as part of what he calls an effort to identify ...

WINNIPEG - Canadian rocker Tom Cochrane said he was overwhelmed Monday, as the Manitoba government named a section of highway near his hometown of Lynn Lake after one of Cochrane’s biggest hits,...