Category Archives: Canada

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - Provincial officials in Saskatchewan say a riverside city whose water supply is threatened by an oil pipeline spill is building a hose, dozens of kilometres long, to draw water ...

MONTREAL - A paralympic cyclist whose two racing bicycles were stolen in Quebec City just weeks before the Rio Olympics said on Sunday she’s overwhelmed by the support she’s received. Mari...

MONCTON, N.B. - A New Brunswick family has failed to break the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of individuals with the same last name. Susan Steeves estimates 1,900 members of the Stee...

Ottawa will retire the older DOT-111 rail tanker cars - the ones involved in the deadly Lac-Megantic tragedy - several months earlier than planned, The Canadian Press has learned. The tank cars will n...

OTTAWA - Hillary Clinton was determined to go skating. The First Lady, as she was called when she came to Ottawa on a February 1995 state visit with then-U.S. president Bill Clinton, had often heard a...

TORONTO - The family of a Canadian man they say is being held in Turkey on accusations he was a leader of the failed July 15 military coup is trying to get Davud Hanci’s wife and children out of...

OTTAWA - Britain’s envoy to Canada says his country will push hard for the speedy approval of the Canada-EU free-trade agreement despite the Brexit referendum decision to leave the 28-country bl...

LIVERPOOL, N.S. - The Outhouse Museum began as a request over an afternoon spot of tea. In the 1970s, Isabel Macneill invited Sherman Hines to her old house in a village on Nova Scotia's South Shore t...

PHILADELPHIA - A U.S. election that has already seen its share of drama witnessed a James-Bond-level plot twist Sunday - accusations of Russian meddling in the campaign. It’s a charge levelled b...

A Canadian Transportation Agency study says air travellers with severe allergies to peanuts, nuts or sesame seeds face little risk from other people on a plane who may be eating snacks containing thos...