Category Archives: Canada

FREDERICTON - Authorities who revoked a criminal lawyer’s controversial “DUI DR” vanity plates were unreasonable, the New Brunswick Court of Appeal has ruled. Wendell Maxwell has pra...

WASHINGTON - Bleeding support from his own party, Donald Trump attempted to salve the gusher Monday with the balm of traditional Republican economic medicine: wide-ranging deregulation and tax cuts. T...

MONTREAL - There were no traces of the anti-depressant Cymbalta in the blood of the man charged with murder in Quebec’s election-night shooting in 2012, an expert Crown witness testified Monday....

WHISTLER, B.C. - Whistler Blackcomb Holdings, the owner of the famed Whistler Blackcomb ski hill resort in B.C., is being taken over by Vail Resorts, a mountain resort operator based in Broomfield, Co...

REGINA - Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says a key cabinet minister made “a terrible decision” to get behind the wheel after drinking. Don McMorris was charged with impaired driving Friday...

TORONTO - Residents of provinces that allow pharmacists to administer flu shots are more likely to get vaccinated against the seasonal bug, a study has found. In a paper published Monday in the Canadi...

GRANBY, Que. - A lion at Quebec’s Granby Zoo attacked an employee Monday, fracturing her backbone, the head of the facility said. The woman, in her early 20s, was in hospital in stable condition...

VICTORIA - It’s supposed to be impossible to squeeze blood from a stone, but a Canadian-led team of archeologists has extracted rhino blood from a Stone Age hand axe that is dated at 250,000 yea...

Hamilton police say they believe the death of an 11-year-old boy with disabilities who was the subject of an Amber Alert over the weekend was an accident. The body of Finnigan Danne, who suffered from...

GRAND PRE, N.S. - For the first time in more than a decade, Ottawa is asking Canadians to nominate favoured places as candidates for UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Environment Minister Catherine McKenna...