Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Canada’s national housing agency rang more alarm bells about Vancouver’s real estate sector after it released a report Wednesday saying there is now strong evidence of problemati...

MONTREAL - Quebec’s new Internet law banning access to some online gambling sites is facing a second major challenge, this time from Canada’s wireless telecom lobby. The Canadian Wireless ...

TORONTO - An activist group says at least a dozen immigrants detained at Ontario correctional facilities remain on hunger strike after more than two weeks. Immigrant and refugee rights group No One Is...

VANCOUVER - Households in Edmonton generate, on average, almost four times the amount of greenhouse gas emissions as their counterparts in Montreal, according to a study released Wednesday by the Univ...

OTTAWA - Hunter Tootoo revealed Wednesday he was working through “deeply personal and private issues” over the course of the two months he spent away from his role as a federal MP while un...

HALIFAX - A writer for a Halifax satire and gossip magazine says it’s ridiculous that police have charged him with breaching a publication ban in the case of a police officer’s murder, and...

MIRAMICHI, N.B. - Public Services Minister Judy Foote is laying some blame for problems with the government’s new Phoenix payroll system on inadequate training for staff who input information wi...

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. - An Ontario man has pleaded guilty in a lottery fraud where he tried to cheat his regular prize-playing group out of a $7-million win. Ontario Provincial Police say they began in...

OTTAWA - A New Democrat MP says he will table a private member’s bill at the earliest opportunity to repeal controversial anti-terrorism measures - accusing the Trudeau government of moving too ...

MODESTO, Calif. - Police in Central California say they arrested a Canadian woman allegedly carrying 38 kilograms of heroin after a police dog alerted his handler to drugs inside her pickup truck duri...