Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - For years - decades, actually - Noreen Smith couldn’t perform the simple actions of everyday living that most of us take for granted: drinking a cup of coffee; writing her name; stylin...

CALGARY - The National Energy Board says it is accepting written comments on motions calling for two of three people to step down from a panel reviewing the Energy East Pipeline over perceptions of bi...

The mayor of an Ontario border city that was unwittingly visited by 1,500 wayward Americans over the weekend said he’d like them to come back someday - but this time with money, clothes and pass...

OTTAWA - Last spring, school boards grappled with the practical issues that came with welcoming thousands of new Syrian students: finding them desks, pencils, books. But as they gear up for this schoo...

OTTAWA - It appears contract talks at Canada Post have stalled as a strike mandate for more than 51,000 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers is set to expire. The postal agency’s bigg...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is urging patience as her government grapples with a budget deficit projected to hit almost $11 billion this year While the situation is bad, it would have bee...

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - A police spokesman in the Dominican Republic says an elderly Canadian man has been killed at his home in a resort town along the Caribbean coast. Spokesman Nelson R...

VANCOUVER - The Canadian Medical Association says 72 per cent of doctors who responded to a survey it conducted want the federal government to regulate THC levels in recreational marijuana. A total of...

OTTAWA - The son of a Canadian man jailed in China on espionage charges is hoping Justin Trudeau’s upcoming visit to the east Asian country will help his father’s case - but Simeon Garratt...

FREDERICTON - Nova Scotia farmer Danny Dill is hoping for lots of rain in the coming weeks - or his giant pumpkins, used to float contestants in Windsor’s annual pumpkin regatta, may end up on t...