Category Archives: Canada

WASHINGTON - Negotiations start Wednesday for an update to the quarter-century-old North American Free Trade Agreement. This glossary of negotiating terms helps explain understand some of the underlyi...

Five stories in the news for Wednesday, Aug. 16 --- NAFTA RENEGOTIATION TALKS BEGIN TODAY Canada’s lead minister for the renegotiation of NAFTA has arrived in Washington for the first round of t...

VICTORIA - Joe Carr’s most memorable total solar eclipse had ties to former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. He stayed in a tent in the Sahara Desert supplied by Gadhafi to house dedicated eclip...

OTTAWA - Major agricultural federations are urging NAFTA’s negotiators to skip the continent’s farms and ranches if they’re looking for sectors in need of a makeover. The demand Wedn...

EDMONTON - A member of Alberta’s new United Conservative Party has quit caucus after repeatedly making headlines in recent days for his conduct. “I have made honest mistakes - always doing...

CAMROSE, Alta. - A woman who lost her engagement ring 13 years ago while weeding her garden on the family farm is wearing it proudly again after her daughter-in-law pulled it from the ground on a miss...

MONTREAL - A commemorative plaque honouring a former president of the Confederate States of America has been removed from a Hudson’s Bay Co. building in downtown Montreal. Spokeswoman Tiffany Bo...

HALIFAX - More than 100 people gathered in a Halifax park Tuesday to criticize the rise of the white supremacist movement in the United States and recall racism’s role in Canadian history. The g...

TORONTO - One of the world’s largest tobacco companies is rolling out a smokeless cigarette in Canada that it contends is less harmful than conventional combustible products, but some critics ca...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - The BC Centre for Disease Control has issued safety information about two major fire retardants for people returning home after a wildfire who may find their homes or properties cover...