Category Archives: Canada

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - Saskatchewan’s third-largest city was expecting to have alternate sources of water on the weekend to help deal with an oil spill that has tainted the river it usually draw...

As Florida has its first reported case of Zika virus transmitted by mosquitoes on the U.S. mainland, here’s what Canadians need to know: What is Zika virus? It’s a mosquito-borne illness t...

ADMIRAL’S BEACH, N.L. - A young beluga whale appears to have taken a liking to a small Newfoundland village, where some residents have made of habit of patting its head and rubbing its belly. Th...

CALGARY - The head of Canada’s largest pipeline company is touting the increased safety of the industry as he awaits word on the fate of two major expansion projects from the Trudeau government....

OTTAWA - The Liberals need to own up and explain why Hunter Tootoo - billed as star candidate in the last election - is no longer a member of cabinet or caucus, a former Nunavut politician said Friday...

Anger has boiled over in a northern Ontario city following a plea deal that will allow three men who decapitated and dismembered a friend at a wild drug-fuelled house party to walk free within two yea...

CALGARY - A helmet from the Jamaican bobsled team at the 1988 Winter Olympics wasn’t the hot commodity it was expected to be at a Boston auction. The asking price of US$3,500 for the yellow head...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - A safety official in New Brunswick says two teens don’t know how close they came to serious harm after trying a stunt that has hospitalized or killed three people in two other...

COQUITLAM, B.C. - Dozens of Syrian refugees have lost their new homes after a fire burned through an apartment complex in Coquitlam, B.C. The fire broke out about 11 a.m. on Thursday, displacing numer...

MONTREAL - The only explanation for accused Quebec election night shooter Richard Henry Bain’s actions outside the Parti Quebecois gathering in 2012 is mental illness, a forensic psychiatrist to...