Category Archives: Canada

CALGARY - The oilsands sector is on track for a big increase in greenhouse gas emissions, even with the Pathways carbon storage project moving forward, an environmental economist says. Emissions from ...

MIRABEL - The federal government is creating a research facility to advance Canada's military capabilities with drones. National Defence Minister David McGuinty was in Mirabel, Que., home to a major a...

NELSON - A man whose dangerous driving while high on mushrooms prompted about 50 calls to 911 before he rammed an off-duty police officer's vehicle has been sentenced in British Columbia. Jivat Aragon...

TORONTO - As a sweltering heat wave blankets much of Central Canada, the Heart and Stroke Foundation says the weather can be especially dangerous for people with cardiovascular conditions. "The heat j...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver police are lauding family members, investigators and prosecutors who "did not give up" in finding justice for teenager Alfred Wong, who was killed by a stray bullet in 2018. The ...

HALIFAX - Federal researchers want to know where dead seabirds off the coast of Nova Scotia are most likely to wash up, and they're using a low-tech solution to find out: driftwood. Environment and Cl...

VANCOUVER - Wildfire officials and crews across British Columbia were preparing for a potentially significant uptick in fire activity in the coming days as dry conditions collide with expected lightni...

Danielle Sheahan, a Hamilton psychotherapist, helps her clients find hope. She didn't expect to find her own during a meeting of a little-known city committee. Sheahan says she was "shocked" when Hami...

OTTAWA - The Carney government is replacing former broadcast journalist Tom Clark as consul general to New York City with an oil executive, and naming a former cabinet minister as Canada's envoy in Lo...

Residents of a handful of communities in northwestern Ontario have been ordered to leave their homes due to nearby forest fires. Ontario Provincial Police said on social media that evacuation orders a...