Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - The company that owns the Toronto Star said Tuesday it is laying off more than 50 people, mostly from its newsroom and tablet edition, amid increasing pressure from declining print advertisi...

CALGARY - RCMP have charged a Calgary man with importing a dangerous synthetic drug that can be 100 times more powerful than deadly fentanyl. Canada Border Services Agency staff seized a package conta...

OTTAWA - Officials warned the government late last year that without a significant boost in repair funds, aging and crumbling federal buildings could soon become unfit for workers and jeopardize healt...

CHEMAINUS, B.C. - Const. Clay Wurzinger and his police dog had been methodically searching for hours along an old forestry road on Vancouver Island when Boomer picked up the missing woman’s scen...

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - A Toronto-area elementary school teacher has been suspended after at least one advocacy group alleged she participated in an anti-Israel protest. The Dufferin-Peel Catholic Distric...

VANCOUVER - Two old arrows from Africa will be looked at by a curator at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia to see if they might be added to its archives after the interv...

ENFIELD, N.S. - Darryl Pottie planted a plywood sign outside his Enfield, N.S., home early last month with a plea: “Sid please sign my jersey.” Two-time Stanley Cup winner Sidney Crosby wa...

WINNIPEG - From cucumbers to onions to leeks, produce is being stolen in some parts of Manitoba this summer, and there are concerns the thieves may be getting more organized. While rural farmers and c...

ENFIELD, N.S. - Darryl Pottie planted a plywood sign outside his Enfield, N.S., home early last month with a plea: “Sid please sign my jersey.” Two-time Stanley Cup winner Sidney Crosby wa...

MONTREAL - Pork and poultry companies Olymel and Groupe Robitaille announced Tuesday a joint investment of $80 million in a production and processing facility that is expected to create 350 new jobs i...