Category Archives: Canada

Inuit and those who provide mental-health services to them need to reach a common understanding of why suicide is so common in their communities before they can deal with it, says Canada’s natio...

VANCOUVER - A pet gecko that disappeared after its owner put it on a WestJet flight from Toronto to Vancouver last Sunday has been found alive. Meryl Bishop, the owner of Nom the gecko, received a cal...

CALGARY - Shipments of crude-by-rail have shown a steady decline this year and railway executives see little hope of a quick turnaround. The latest data from Statistics Canada, released Wednesday, rev...

OTTAWA - A lawyer who helped set up the first social impact bond in the country says the biggest barrier to expanding the community financing initiative in Canada is lack of knowledge, not regulatory ...

HALIFAX - The boy was just three weeks old when he suffered a head injury so severe his skull was “like a crushed egg,” according to one doctor. His father offered police several possible ...

COOMBS, B.C. - Hundreds of parrots are now up for adoption after the last of the birds was safely removed from Vancouver Island’s World Parrot Refuge. Refuge supervisor Matthew Spate says betwee...

HALIFAX - The Canadian Armed Forces are warning Pokemon Go players - both in and out of uniform - not to search for Pokemon on military property. A spokesperson said military police have reported R...

VANCOUVER - A University of British Columbia study estimated average household greenhouse gas emissions in major cities across Canada between 1997 and 2009. The calculations were based on factors such...

VANCOUVER - Overdose deaths have climbed to such an urgent level in British Columbia that the province needs help from the federal government to deal with a public health emergency, Premier Christy Cl...

MONTREAL - A psychiatrist who met with alleged murderer Richard Henry Bain nearly two weeks after his arrest in 2012 says it’s clear to her he was in a manic state brought on by bipolar disorder...