Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - Squirrel meat could soon be on the menu in Quebec if a Montreal university student succeeds in his quest to make it legal to hunt the furry rodents. Martin Poirier has started a petition to...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A province-wide state of emergency has been declared in British Columbia after dozens of new wildfires broke out Friday, July 7, destroying buildings and forcing thousands of people f...

HAMBURG - G20 leaders managed to bring U.S. President Donald Trump on side against protectionist trade policies, but he still stands alone when it comes to resisting action on climate change. The Pari...

TORONTO - There is one winning ticket for the $23.6 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw, and it was purchased somewhere in Ontario. The exact location has yet to be announced. The j...

YELLOWKNIFE - A woman from the Czech Republic who vanished while picking mushrooms in the Northwest Territories has resurfaced. Mounties say the woman walked into a search-and-rescue command post on h...

CALGARY - Canada’s minister of Indigenous Affairs says she understands some families of missing and murdered aboriginal women are still frustrated about the pace of a national inquiry. But Carol...

OTTAWA - An 18-year-old woman from Belleville, Ont., died while on a graduation trip to Cuba Thursday evening. Family members of Alex Sagriff confirmed her death in a statement widely distributed onli...

TORONTO - The federal government has reached a settlement with Omar Khadr for violations of his constitutional rights. The government also apologized for the treatment he received outside Canada, incl...

TORONTO - Three children and a 21-year-old man have died by suicide in a number of Indigenous communities in northern Ontario since last Friday. Deputy Grand Chief Anna Achneepineskum of the Nishnawbe...

Highlights from the news file for Friday, July 7 --- KHADR WANTS TO MOVE ON: Omar Khadr is saying little about the federal government’s formal apology on what happened to him while he was in cus...