Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau used his Instagram account to promote a different sort of gender equality Tuesday: spouse Sophie finally getting with the social media program. Sophie Gregoire Trudeau used the...

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, Oct. 11 STORM WREAKS HAVOC IN ATLANTIC CANADA: Cleanup efforts were underway Tuesday in the wake of a Hurricane Matthew-related storm that brought torrential...

TORONTO - Blue Jays broadcaster Jerry Howarth won’t be using the word “Indians” when he calls the American League Championship Series between Toronto and Cleveland, and he says he ha...

OTTAWA - A joint statement on the free trade deal between Canada and the European Union is aimed at mollifying its opponents, sources say - including restive Walloons in Belgium who are threatening to...

TORONTO - Ontario’s highest court has dismissed a challenge to the province’s endangered species regulations, a decision environmental groups say will leave many species without legal prot...

TORONTO - As the union representing auto workers turns its attention to its final target, Unifor president Jerry Dias says that securing investment for Ford’s engine plant in Windsor, Ont., is h...

OTTAWA - An appeal court has rejected the federal government’s latest legal salvo in a long-standing bid to deport a Toronto man over alleged terrorist ties. In a new ruling, the Federal Court o...

HALIFAX - It is very difficult to determine how many people are seeking - and getting - medically assisted deaths in Atlantic Canada, an advocate says. Sheila Sperry, spokeswoman for the Nova Scotia c...

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - The University of Lethbridge’s faculty association is speaking out against the suspension of a professor whose online comments about the Holocaust and Israel have angered Jew...

MONTREAL - Molson Coors wants to offer Canadians a wider selection of imported beers after closing its US$12-billion acquisition of Miller brands that makes it the third-largest global brewer. Several...