Category Archives: Canada

CALGARY - No animals died or were seriously injured during the Calgary Stampede this year. Stampede spokeswoman Kristina Barnes says changes made to the track and to barrel positions for the chuckwago...

OTTAWA - This fall, federal public servants are expected to go to Northern Iraq to figure out how to get hundreds of people from there to Canada as refugees. It’s the first time Canadian staff w...

OTTAWA - First Nations leaders and a northern Ontario MP say police officers’ lives are on the line and they want the federal government and the province to negotiate a new policing agreement wi...

Highlights from the news file for Friday, July 15 ATTACK IN NICE LINKED TO RADICAL ISLAM, FRENCH PRESIDENT SAYS: French President Francois Hollande says Mohamed Bouhlel is a terrorist linked to radica...

OTTAWA - The federal government apologized Monday for a mammoth problem with its new pay system that has impacted more than one-quarter of its roughly 300,000 employees, some who say they’ve bee...

HALIFAX - Sidney Crosby met the Stanley Cup at the Halifax airport Friday, beginning his designated time with the storied trophy with a surprise visit to a hometown Tim Hortons. “We heard this b...

OTTAWA - Eight Canadian fighter jets have been deployed on a massive training exercise in the Pacific, despite Liberal government warnings the country does not have enough such aircraft to defend Nort...

TORONTO - The man who created the design for Canada’s loonie coin has died. Artist Robert-Ralph Carmichael’s image of a solitary loon was introduced in 1987, when Canada replaced its one d...

OTTAWA - The Turkish government faced accusations Monday of engaging in a “witch hunt” for arresting or firing thousands of judges and prosecutors following the weekend’s failed coup...

EDMONTON - An Edmonton student missing after a deadly truck attack in France that killed at least 84 people is a Ukrainian citizen. MacEwan University says Mykhaylo (Misha) Bazelevskyy has permanent r...