Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - A startup based in Waterloo, Ont., is looking to take cannabis cultivation high-tech, but the success of the mobile app-controlled system may hinge on whether new regulations will allow Cana...

HALIFAX - Just seven months after Nova Scotia’s government warned of troubling revenue declines, its finance minister has announced the final deficit number has plummeted $87 million lower than ...

CALGARY - Security is expected to be tight when the secretary general of the United Nations speaks in Calgary Friday night. Ban Ki-moon is expected to meet with Alberta government officials in the aft...

MONTREAL - Jurors heard the final evidence Tuesday at the first-degree murder trial of the man charged in Quebec’s election-night shooting four years ago and were told they’ll begin delibe...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador has lost another legal skirmish in its long-running energy feud with Hydro-Quebec. Crown corporation Nalcor Energy said Tuesday it’s translatin...

HALIFAX - A restaurateur has high praise for the Halifax police’s subtle and low-key arrest of a Newfoundland man on the run from murder and arson charges. “They walked in, no one even not...

AMHERST, N.S. - A town councillor is under scrutiny after admitting to uttering a racist slur to staff at a pizza shop in this small Nova Scotia community. Amherst Mayor Robert Small said Coun. George...

HALIFAX - Fire crews are desperately holding back an out-of-control wildfire near Kejimkujik National Park, trying to keep it from growing ahead of hotter, windier weather expected to make the task ev...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The family of a Canadian legal scholar gunned down in his Florida garage will be paid $40,000 by an agency that handles 911 calls. The dispatch agency for Tallahassee and Leon Coun...

OTTAWA - The pace of new Canadian residential construction eased last month following an unusually robust June, but still held up stronger than expected. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the sea...