Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Using micro-targeted policies and politics to attract specific, narrow groups of voters is a strategy the Conservatives must abandon if they are to find their way back to government, says the...

MONCTON, N.B. - A Moncton, N.B., doctor who checked the medical files of more than 100 young women, including co-workers, waitresses and women he met at the gym and bars, has been fired. Dr. Fernando ...

TORONTO - Ontario’s securities watchdog has launched the country’s first paid whistleblower program, a move the securities commission says it expects will be a “game changer” i...

VANCOUVER - The RCMP officer who jolted Robert Dziekanski several times at Vancouver’s airport and then lied about it to an inquiry has lost his appeal in British Columbia’s highest court....

HALIFAX - Whether they’re at a desk or on the couch, anyone with an interest in visiting the wind-swept dunes of Nova Scotia’s remote Sable Island can now do so without getting sand in the...

TORONTO - Police forces across Canada are warning of the risks involved in playing augmented reality games such as Pokemon Go as reports mount of people getting injured or landing in trouble as they p...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia taxpayers could be on the hook for more than $2 billion in initial construction costs if the province decides to twin 300 kilometres of highway, according to the preliminary find...

GIMLI, Man. - Ankle-deep mounds of fish flies are piling up in the Manitoba town of Gimli where town workers are scooping them with shovels and filling dozens of garbage bags at a time. Park patrol su...

Toronto police say millions of dollars in drugs, property and cash, along with weapons, have been seized in an investigation into an alleged drug smuggling operation with links to the United States. T...

CHURCHILL, Man. - A five-year-old Manitoba girl has died after a canoe she was in with her family capsized in Churchill. RCMP say they got a call late Wednesday afternoon near the town on the shores o...