Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - A judge in Toronto has dismissed a request to freeze Omar Khadr’s assets. Justice Edward Belobaba said the request for an injunction from the widow of an American soldier killed in Afg...

TORONTO — A court-appointed monitor says Sears Canada, its lenders and lawyers for employees have reached a compromise that could allow the company to continue paying certain health benefits and...

OTTAWA — Former astronaut Julie Payette will be Canada’s next Governor General. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement Thursday, July 13. Payette will become the 29th person t...

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Fire officials in British Columbia say they're relieved by a slight reprieve in the weather forecast that had been calling for strong winds where dozens of fires are burning. BC ...

BRAMPTON, Ont. — Loblaw Companies Ltd. says it is recalling select packages of chicken nuggets out of what it describes as “an abundance of caution.” The grocery chain says some pack...

OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada has hiked its benchmark interest rate to 0.75 per cent from 0.5 per cent, its first increase in nearly seven years. Such a move will increase the costs of mortgages, ...

VANCOUVER - Kinder Morgan Canada and other companies are working to keep some of the more than 200 wildfires burning across British Columbia away from their infrastructure, while a number of firms hav...

TORONTO - It’s summer, the kids are out of school, and that means getting them outside - to the playground, the sports field, or lakeside at a cottage or camp. But such activities also mean expo...

MONTREAL - Quebec’s public security minister is again urging victims of this spring’s floods to be patient as the government works its way through thousands of requests for assistance. Mar...

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, July 11 --- COMMISSIONER QUITS INDIGENOUS WOMEN INQUIRY: A commissioner on the inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women has announced she will resi...