Category Archives: Canada

WINNIPEG - For years, people in the tiny northern Manitoba community of Norway House Cree Nation gossiped and whispered about why David Tait Jr. and Leon Swanson didn’t look much like their pare...

OTTAWA - The federal government ran a deficit of $1.0 billion for the first quarter of its fiscal year, down from a surplus of $5.0 billion in the same period last year though “broadly consisten...

MCADAM, N.B. - The cause of more than 100 earthquakes that shook homes and rattled nerves in a New Brunswick village earlier this year may remain a mystery, says a seismologist. Stephen Halchuk at Ear...

SYDNEY, N.S. - Dave Julian says serial arson charges laid against two volunteer firefighters he worked alongside in rural Cape Breton came as a shock - but it turns out the cases aren’t as rare ...

VICTORIA - A reclusive reptile that has been living in a storm drain below the streets of Victoria now has a new home. A tweet posted Thursday night by the City of Victoria shows a city worker holding...

CALGARY - A beloved Fibreglas pig named Henry that was taken by bacon burglars from a Calgary bar is heading home. The 14-kilogram ornament - a fixture at the Unicorn Pub in the city’s southwest...

OTTAWA - The text of Stephen Harper’s remarks following his resignation Friday as member of Parliament for Calgary Heritage: Greetings, fellow Calgarians and fellow Canadians. Today I wish to in...

HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, N.L. - Police say a man from Italy died on board an Air France plane before it landed in Labrador after being diverted there after midnight. RCMP say the flight was headed to F...

TORONTO - A man once dubbed the Fake Beard Bandit and due to be married in three weeks was charged Friday in a bloody crossbow attack that left three people dead and another person seriously injured. ...

OTTAWA - It’s been months since Stephen Harper packed up his Parliament Hill office, but on Friday he finally turned out the lights, resigning his seat as a Calgary MP and ending nearly two ofte...