Category Archives: Canada

Highlights from the news file for Friday, Aug. 5 — LET THE GAMES BEGIN: There’s going to be no shortage of samba, culture or diversity in the opening ceremony for the 2016 Summer Olympics ...

TORONTO - There are calls for mandatory training of restaurant wait staff after police said a severely allergic man was served salmon tartare at a Quebec eatery, putting him in hospital for days. Laur...

JUNEAU, Alaska - A 79-year-old Ontario woman got lost on a solo hike near an Alaska glacier and spent a night in the forest without camping gear but walked to safety the next day. A search Wednesday n...

YELLOWKNIFE - Wildfires are affecting the flow of electricity to more than 20,000 people in Yellowknife and two other communities in the Northwest Territories. The Northwest Territories Power Corporat...

OTTAWA - One of Canada’s top soldiers used his last speech in uniform Friday to rail against an excessive amount of oversight and outside interference in how the military manages its own affairs...

MONTREAL - The defence team for accused election night shooter Richard Henry Bain tried on Friday to discredit the psychiatric evaluation produced by the Crown’s expert witness at his first-degr...

Edmonton police say a driver who called a cyclist a racial slur will not be charged with a hate crime. Bashir Mohamed says he was cycling up to an intersection past the construction site for the city&...

OTTAWA - Opposition parties are seizing on bad news on Canada’s employment front to urge the federal Liberal government to shift economic gears. Statistics Canada says the economy shed 31,200 ne...

VANCOUVER - A panel of the Federal Court of Appeal has unanimously overturned a lower court ruling that found the charter rights of aboriginal inmates were violated by certain psychological tests. The...

SELKIRK, Man. - Manitoba’s premier and a top federal cabinet minister from the province had yet to hear from Omnitrax Friday - 11 days after the company closed the Port of Churchill and laid off...