Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - The City of Toronto announced several measures Thursday in response to a spike in suspected opioid-related deaths in recent weeks. Here is a list of what the city says it is doing: - Speedin...

MONTREAL - Former Quebec Liberal cabinet minister Jacques Daoust, who quit politics because of controversy surrounding his alleged role in a government agency’s sale of Rona Inc. shares to a U.S...

HEMMINGFORD, Que. - The scene greeting asylum seekers at a popular illegal border crossing point in Quebec on Thursday was vastly changed from that of a few months earlier. What used to be an unmarked...

WASHINGTON - A leaked transcript of a Donald Trump phone call shows the president’s private comments about trade with Canada, and suggests he had an overwhelmingly positive attitude about the no...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Police are looking for victims of a 65-year-old Newfoundland man who posed as a teenage boy and exploited children online. The RCMP says the Deer Lake man was convicted of pos...

Toronto is speeding up the opening of three supervised injection sites and asking local police to consider having some officers carry the opioid overdose antidote naloxone as the city responds to a sp...

VANCOUVER - Air quality across southern British Columbia remains poor as smoke from wildfires and a heat wave affect the region. The province is reporting a high health risk rating for air quality in ...

BROSSARD, Que. - Quebec provincial police were searching Thursday for a truck involved in a hit and run near Montreal that left one person dead in a car. Three other people in the car were injured in ...

HALIFAX - Police say a pilot was briefly dazed after a laser was pointed at his small plane as he flew over a Halifax suburb. They say a Diamond DA20 single-engine aircraft was flying above Hammonds P...

LONDON - World medals. One last shot at Usain Bolt. Perhaps a Canadian record. A world championships that had held so much promise for Andre De Grasse went up in smoke during a light 60-metre run on M...