Category Archives: Canada

Here’s a look at some balloon-related accidents in Canada. July 14, 2001: The 15-year-old daughter of the organizer of the Gatineau Hot Air Balloon Festival died when a balloon piloted by her fa...

Hamilton police say a boy who went missing this weekend was found dead Sunday. Police issued a brief news release that provided few other details about Finnigan Danne. A post mortem has been scheduled...

QUEBEC - For all the talk about banning pit bulls in Quebec, an advisory panel convened to look into the fate of those dogs doesn’t appear to be biting on a controversial call to prohibit the do...

LUNENBURG, N.S. - A series of shark sightings in East Coast waters has some locals speculating the population is growing in the area, but a scientist says he has not seen any unusual activity. A tour ...

MONTREAL - In the wake of hot air balloon crash in the U.S. that killed 16 people, the federal agency that oversees transportation safety in this country says there hasn’t been enough action tak...

OTTAWA - The message of tolerance at the heart of the Trudeau government’s international outlook is now being put to the test in one the world’s most ethnically scarred postwar countries -...

INTERCOURSE, Pa. - On the outskirts of a town called Intercourse, an entire community of people has survived this election season with the chastity of its eardrums never once penetrated by the sound o...

OTTAWA - A new computer system designed to root out possible fraud and overpayments in the federal government’s employment insurance program is capturing more cases than its predecessor. But the...

CALGARY - The National Energy Board is set to begin public hearings Monday into the Energy East Pipeline in New Brunswick, a province where the prospect of oil and gas development has led to fierce, a...

Canadians are running, biking and even pushing shopping carts across the country for various compelling causes this summer, but it’s often a struggle to be noticed in the post-Terry Fox era. Tre...