Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - A ticket purchased in British Columbia claimed Saturday night’s $21 million Lotto 649 jackpot. The guaranteed $1 million prize was won by a ticket sold in the Prairies. The jackpot for...

OTTAWA - The delays plaguing the justice system have become a crisis that could result in the release of thousands of criminals, say the senators behind a new report that explores how long it takes fo...

DHAKA, Bangladesh - A University Toronto student detained in connection with a terrorist attack in Bangladesh will reportedly remain in custody for at least another week. A number of media outlets hav...

RIO DE JANEIRO - It didn’t take long for Canada to match its track and field medal total from the London Olympics. Brianne Theisen-Eaton put a tough first day of the heptathlon behind her and fo...

PORTLAND, Maine - Sweden is digging in on a proposal to ban imports of live lobsters into the European Union after a rebuke from American scientists, and the issue could go all the way to the World Tr...

NEWCOMB, N.Y. - The 400-mile trek of a radio-collared moose named Alice is the inspiration for a proposed hiking trail from Ontario’s forested Algonquin Park to the heart of New York’s Adi...

OTTAWA - A willingness to embrace technology might not be the first attribute that comes to mind when one thinks of the legal world. The Canadian Bar Association is trying to change that. At its annua...

TORONTO - There is one winning ticket for the $60 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw, and it was purchased somewhere in the Prairie provinces. Nineteen of the 42 MaxMillions prizes...

MONTREAL - The jurors deciding the fate of the man charged in Quebec’s 2012 election-night shooting ended their first day of deliberations on without returning a verdict. Richard Henry Bain, 65,...

CALGARY - A former Calgary woman whose 22-year-old radicalized son was killed while fighting alongside Islamic extremists in Syria two years ago says the federal government failed both Aaron Driver an...