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...

Quebec’s opposition parties are encouraging far-right groups in the province, Premier Philippe Couillard said Tuesday in response to reports of anti-immigration banners being displayed in Quebec...

Smoke from an increasing number of forest fires in northwestern Ontario has prompted the evacuation of a First Nation in the region, officials said Tuesday. Deb MacLean, a fire information officer wit...

CHARLOTTETOWN - Energy and greenhouse gas emissions are expected to be among the major issues up for discussion when the New England governors and eastern Canadian premiers meet later this month in Pr...

FREDERICTON - At least five New Brunswick children whose families were known to protective workers have died, but little is publicly known about their deaths - and the province’s child and youth...

TORONTO - Two Toronto police officers who were recorded mocking a 29-year-old woman with Down syndrome should lose their jobs over their comments, the woman’s mother said Tuesday as the pair fac...

OTTAWA - Documents show Transport Canada went ahead with building a $5.4-million crash barrier at one of its vehicle test sites last year without knowing if it was worth the money. The auditor general...

OTTAWA - Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s taoiseach, or prime minister, will join Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at Montreal’s Pride parade during a three-day visit that gets underway Saturday. The ...

WASHINGTON - A protectionist new government has been elected in North America, railing against free trade, and warning it will rip up a regional agreement. Across the border, baffled media pundits bem...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Federal prosecutors in New York say a Canadian man attempted to ship live snakes to China through the mail. The U.S. attorney’s office in Buffalo says 28-year-old Chaoyi Le, of M...