Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $10 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. That means the jackpot for the next draw on Aug. 18 will grow to approximately $15 million. The...

Calgary’s mayor says controversy over a $500,000 public art installation has convinced him the city’s art policy needs to change. Mayor Naheed Nenshi admits he hasn’t personally seen...

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - A Canadian pastor released from prison in North Korea this week is planning to attend a church service in Mississauga, Ont., on Sunday. Hyeon Soo Lim was released on what state med...

EDMONTON - A suspect has been charged after military memorial plaques were stolen and later turned up at an Edmonton scrap metal yard. The 18 metal plaques were removed in late July from Griesbach, a ...

Highlights from the news file for Friday, Aug. 11 --- OTTAWA TAKES NEW APPROACH TO QUEBEC ASYLUM SEEKERS: Twenty officials from the Immigration and Refugee Board have been assigned to focus exclusivel...

SASKATOON - Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says a long-awaited apology to victims of the ’60s Scoop could come before he ends his decade-long career in office. Wall announced two years ago that ...

BURNABY, B.C. - Outside a busy Starbucks in Metro Vancouver, a black-and-white photograph of a young man in a suit and tie sits nestled among flowers, handwritten cards and a bright red ribbon that re...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Access to the backcountry has been banned in a large swath of British Columbia’s Interior as wildfire crews gear up for a challenging weekend. Kevin Skrepnek with the BC Wildfir...

OTTAWA - There was nothing left to do except crack bitter Armageddon jokes. Disbelief turned to deep concern and then faded to a sense of futility as Canadian politicians attempted to make sense of Do...

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - A man who confessed to killing the house manager at an addiction treatment centre New Westminster, B.C., has been found not criminally responsible for the death because of a me...