Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - In a bone-dry province bedevilled with wildfires, the Seven Mile Lake blaze is distinct: About 395 hectares, and out of control for more than a week near one of Nova Scotia’s crown jew...

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. - Police say a man who stole a small plane from a rural airport in the Greater Toronto Area died Friday after crashing the aircraft onto a street in a southern Ontario city. Police ...

Five stories in the news today from The Canadian Press: --- PENNY OLEKSIAK GOLDEN IN THE RIO POOL FOR CANADA Toronto teenager Penny Oleksiak is the proud owner of Canada’s first gold medal of th...

MONTREAL - In between a downtown expressway and a towering grain silo along Montreal’s historic Lachine Canal lies a 130-year-old, grey limestone one-storey structure housing ambitious blacksmit...

MONTREAL - Les Forges de Montreal, which teaches the ancient techniques of forging metal, is involved in a lease dispute with the City of Montreal. Some facts about blacksmithing: - Traditional blacks...

TORONTO - The Ontario Energy Board is issuing new guidelines to better define obligations to consult First Nations communities about “hydrocarbon pipelines,” just days after the National E...

OTTAWA - Canada’s top justice did her best to stay far away from politics during her visit to Canadian Bar Association’s annual conference in Ottawa - but that’s not to say she kept ...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A handful of Tamil refugees who were found starving and nearly without hope aboard open lifeboats 30 years ago off Newfoundland returned Thursday to visit the rescuers who hel...

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Aug. 13 ___ RCMP RELEASE VIDEO OF TERROR SUSPECT: RCMP Deputy Commissioner Mike Cabana says police were in a race against time to stop a man they feared was...

OTTAWA - Some of what was said Thursday about the alleged terrorist plot thwarted by law enforcement agencies in Strathroy, Ont.: “On August 10, 2016, the RCMP received information from the Fede...