Category Archives: Canada

CALGARY - The long-running “flushable wipes” controversy has turned into an ongoing war of words in Canada, with manufacturers insisting their moist towelettes are more sewer-friendly than...

VANCOUVER - Delusions drove a man to target 15 homes in British Columbia with arsons and gunfire, but Vincent Cheung was aware of his drug addiction and his behaviour requires strong denunciation, a j...

FIELD, B.C. - The search for an 11-year-old Calgary boy who fell into the Yoho River in southeastern British Columbia last Friday has ended. Parks Canada says a search team recovered the body of the b...

CALGARY - The Calgary Zoo says its 30-year-old Komodo dragon has died. Loka came to Calgary in 2014 from Toronto's zoo and received veterinary care as a geriatric animal. The zoo says the female drago...

PHILADELPHIA - Young Hillary Rodham’s friends fretted about her hitching her star to a backslapping young boyfriend from Arkansas. They rolled their eyes when she explained why she uprooted her ...

EDMONTON - An Edmonton woman who purchased a lottery ticket on a whim while buying milk has picked up a cheque for almost $21 million. Bogumila Mroczkowski won the money in the April 30 Lotto 6/49 dra...

VANCOUVER - An annual hearing to review the confinement of a mentally ill British Columbia man who killed his three children has been adjourned for 10 months. The province’s Criminal Justice Bra...

SUFFIELD, Alta. - The possibility of a terrorist attack using biological or chemical weapons makes the focus of a 15-day NATO training exercise at Canada’s largest training base even more import...

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, July 26 ISIL CLAIMS ATTACK THAT KILLED FRENCH PRIEST: The Islamic State group crossed a new threshold Tuesday in its war against the West, as two of its foll...

EDMONTON - An Alberta judge who overturned a teenager’s acquittal on a sexual assault charge has delivered a scathing “No means No” lesson to a lower-court colleague and his take on ...