Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter says that Canadian governments should consider emulating the non-profit he has promoted for years as a means of alleviating an affordable housing crunch in ...

HALIFAX - Tensions over how Halifax honours its contentious founder are growing as a plan to topple the statue of Edward Cornwallis from a downtown park circulates on social media. A Facebook event ca...

Calgary police have identified two of three people found dead in a burned-out car at a suburban construction site and are asking for the public’s help in tracking down the vehicle’s owner....

OTTAWA - International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says she will try to persuade her counterpart in the Trump administration not to slash billions in foreign aid as the president has prop...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - As firefighters on Canada’s west coast battle wildfires sweeping through the British Columbia Interior, the country’s eastern-most province is hoping a new tool wi...

TORONTO - A British man compensated by the U.K. government for his torture and years of detention at Guantanamo Bay expressed dismay on Tuesday at the public and political furor in Canada over Ottawa&...

OTTAWA - The Canadian military’s new top legal officer is hoping her appointment sends a message, namely that the Forces is serious about accepting - and valuing - women in uniform. Commodore Ge...

Wildfires that have forced more than 60 provincial parks in central B.C. to close are stoking fears among tourism operators that the financial damage will spread to the province’s entire industr...

Quebec’s representative in the softwood lumber dispute between Canada and the United States says that dossier needs to be settled before talks begin on renegotiating the North American Free Trad...

LIKELY, B.C. - It’s definitely a horse of a different colour. Pictures of Rosy, a white-and-brown mare mistakenly painted neon pink by a teen in the British Columbia Interior, are providing some...