Category Archives: Canada

BELLA BELLA, B.C. - The chief of a First Nation community says choppy weather hindered efforts Friday to deploy a larger boom to better contain a leak of diesel fuel from a sunken tugboat on British C...

MONTREAL - An armoured vehicle was robbed in Montreal on Friday after being hit with the front end of an backhoe tractor on a busy street. Police say a backhoe deliberately crashed into a parked armou...

OTTAWA - Some of what was said Friday about the Canada-EU trade agreement known as the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, or CETA, which appeared close to collapse Friday after talks broke do...

Highlights from the news file for Friday, Oct. 21 ____ CANADA WALKS FROM TRADE TALKS: International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland says she can do no more to convince a region of Belgium to agree to...

FREDERICTON - There will be no fast-track appeal in a cross-border beer battle that has national implications for interprovincial trade. New Brunswick government lawyers had sought leave to appeal the...

WINNIPEG - Police have laid more charges against a former Winnipeg priest previously convicted of sexual abuse. Ronald Leger, who is 78, faces eight counts of sexual assault. Leger is accused of abusi...

OTTAWA - Two federal cabinet ministers danced around the issue of approving new oil pipelines at this week’s climate conference in Ottawa, but both concede that Liberal policy decisions will ups...

TORONTO - An Ontario mother is calling for better tracking of errors made by pharmacies after her son died from what she called a devastating “careless mistake.” Melissa Sheldrick’s ...

OTTAWA - The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and the European Union, also known as CETA, appears to be close to foundering on the objections of a small region of Belgium. Her...

TORONTO - On the eve of the 50th anniversary of Chanie Wenjack’s passing, Gord Downie offered an impassioned retelling of his story through a collection of songs honouring the late indigenous bo...