Category Archives: Canada

VANCOUVER - Canada’s fisheries minister is dismissing concerns from stakeholder groups over suggestions the government agency tasked with conserving wild fish stocks is in a conflict of interest...

The endangered piping plovers that live on Prince Edward Island beaches and New Brunswick’s Bay of Fundy are among the Canadian nature sites that will soon be visible on Google Street View. The ...

NEWMARKET, Ont. - An Ontario animal protection group says it has sent members of its rescue and relief team to Massachusetts to assist American colleagues in handling what it calls the largest-ever fa...

Five stories in the news today from The Canadian Press: --- CANDLELIGHT VIGIL PLANNED FOR HAMILTON BOY A candlelight vigil is planned tonight in a Hamilton neighbourhood left reeling by the death of F...

EVERETT, Wash. - A man pleaded not guilty Monday after prosecutors said he killed a rural Washington state couple and buried their remains. John Blaine Reed, 54, was arraigned in Everett and entered t...

EDMONTON - An official with the Canadian Mental Health Association is hoping strange, human-shaped figures that were placed on an Edmonton bridge’s controversial suicide prevention barriers spar...

VICTORIA - Amnesty International is calling for a stop work order on British Columbia’s $8.8 billion Site C hydroelectric dam, saying the mega project on the Peace River threatens the human righ...

WINNIPEG - A group of laid-off employees of Winnipeg-based Ben Moss Jewellers is taking the company to the Manitoba Labour Board, alleging they were let go without severance or notice as the company s...

STEINBACH, Man. - A Manitoba man says a kind stranger helped his pregnant wife make it to hospital to deliver a healthy baby boy. Shane Wall says his wife Darlene was 12 days overdue when they started...

OTTAWA - Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s office requested an internal analysis last winter to examine the potential impacts of introducing a tax on soft drinks. A January briefing note l...