Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - A lawsuit that says a federal agency has consistently approved pesticides without enough information on their potential harmful effects has survived an attempt to get it thrown out of court. ...

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Waiving fees to replace passports and other documents lost in last year’s Fort McMurray wildfire cost Ottawa almost $130,000 in forgone revenue. The May 2016 disaster disp...

OTTAWA - Canada’s taxpayers’ advocate says the Canada Revenue Agency isn’t doing a good enough job ensuring women living in shelters with their children are aware of and receiving be...

SAINT-APOLLINAIRE, Que. - After six Muslim men were shot dead inside a Quebec City mosque last January, relations between Muslims and the rest of the community were excellent, said Mohamed Kesri - and...

TORONTO - The roots of the Sino-Forest saga stretch back more than 20 years. Formed in 1994, it grew to become the most valuable forestry company on the Toronto Stock Exchange. It was also the first a...

HALIFAX - Organizers say a weekend protest calling for a statue of Halifax's controversial founder to be toppled will proceed as planned, despite objections from some Mi’kmaq leaders. A Facebook...

Four women and their nursing infants have become the poster children for a northern Ontario community’s campaign to reduce the stigma around breastfeeding in public. The Porcupine Health Unit in...

OTTAWA - Canada’s spy agency is facing questions about its workplace culture amid allegations that senior officials foster a prejudice and distrust for Muslims employees, who are seen as “...

WINNIPEG - Former United States president Jimmy Carter has been released from a Winnipeg hospital a day after he became dehydrated while volunteering with a Habitat for Humanity home-building event in...

TORONTO - Timber company Sino-Forest and several of its top executives defrauded investors, misled investigators and “engaged in deceitful or dishonest conduct,” the Ontario Securities Com...