Author Archives: Syndicated Content

VICTORIA - Vancouver Island MP Aaron Gunn said he won't run for the leadership of the Conservative Party of B.C. because he doesn't want to risk giving the federal Liberals a majority government. Gunn...

The Public Health Agency of Canada is reporting a fifth hospitalization in an E. coli outbreak linked to recalled Pillsbury brand Pizza Pops. The federal agency says 23 people got sick with the bacter...

MONTREAL - Quebec's expanded school cellphone ban is getting top marks from some students and administrators who say the measure has improved students' concentration and social interactions. On a rece...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney says the holiday season is a time to slow down and reflect and to reconnect with loved ones. In a recorded message to Canadians, he says the holidays remind people ...

An explosion in Moscow on Wednesday killed three people, including two police officers, Russian investigators said, days after a car bomb killed a high-ranking general not far away. An official from U...

OTTAWA - The federal transport minister says Santa Claus has been cleared for travel in Canadian airspace. Steven MacKinnon released a video in which he authorizes Santa to deliver Christmas presents ...

OTTAWA - Europe is watching for a possible breakthrough in U.S.-led talks for a ceasefire in Ukraine, as Canada has repeatedly said it's up to Ukrainians to decide how the war ends. Ukrainian Presiden...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government says it will seek leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada in an effort to block a redrawing of the provincial electoral map. Premier Franois Legault's governmen...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand affirmed support for Denmark, as Washington again says it wants to annex the country's self-governing territory of Greenland. Anand spoke Tuesday with her...

Alan Millar and Scott Salmond were sifting through the wreckage. Canada had endured a second straight quarterfinal exit at the world junior hockey championship - this time on home soil. The battered a...