Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Chrystia Freeland has given Canadians a look at their government’s strategy as it prepares to go nose-to-nose with the country’s biggest trading partner in crucial NAFTA talks. Th...

MONTREAL - Some of the asylum-seekers who have recently crossed the Canada-U.S. border say they’re struggling to find a place to live once they leave government-run temporary shelters. Ahmed Ift...

TORONTO - Dozens of demonstrators gathered in downtown Toronto Monday morning to stand in solidarity with victims of the weekend violence in Virginia that killed one woman and injured 19 people. Many ...

TORONTO - The proportion of oral cancers caused by the human papillomavirus has risen significantly in Canada, say researchers, who suggest the infection is now behind an estimated three-quarters of a...

VANCOUVER - A tourist is dead after a charter bus hit several pedestrians and a parked vehicle in Vancouver’s bustling downtown, police say. Sgt. Jason Robillard with Vancouver Police said the 4...

Chrystia Freeland will push for additional labour and environmental sections when she shares broad strokes Monday of Canada’s goals for the upcoming NAFTA talks. The foreign affairs minister wil...

SALMO, B.C. - A weekend music festival in southern British Columbia that was cancelled due to an encroaching wildfire was put back on Sunday, although an evacuation alert remained in effect for the ar...

OTTAWA - The federal government has spent a lot of time in the U.S. of late, making Canada’s case in advance of this week’s long-awaited NAFTA talks. Back home, though, industry groups hav...

WASHINGTON - While the U.S. president trashes NAFTA as a one-sided, job-killing disaster possibly worth scrapping, the man who will lead the American negotiating team when talks start this week is an ...

HALIFAX - Dozens of mourners marched in the rain to pay their respects to two foul-tempered fixtures of a Halifax community - a pair of geese who were run down at a crosswalk. They braved a downpour S...