Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The mayors of Canada’s biggest cities say they need a slice of the tax windfall from legal marijuana to cover what they describe as significant costs associated with enforcing a signatu...

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. - Marilyn Harding cries as she talks about her late husband and his death from pancreatic cancer five years after retiring from a three-decade career at the General Electric factory...

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. – When Beth came through the arrival gate at Saskatoon's Diefenbaker International Airport, she ran over and gave Sheila Andrews a big hug. Andrews, a 50-year-old kitchen wo...

OTTAWA - Federal officials have advised Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale to put the brakes on setting up a publicly accessible database of high-risk child sex offenders. The previous Conservative ...

OTTAWA - Opposition parties and international legal experts are calling on Ottawa to say what it plans to do about three UN drug treaties that pose a conundrum for the Liberal government and its plans...

Five stories in the news for Friday, June 2 --- CANADA ‘DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED’ IN U.S. CLIMATE DECISION Canada’s environment minister says the world will continue marching toward a gre...

CALGARY - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says the NDP would welcome anyone who feels like they wouldn’t have a political home in the United Conservative Party. The province’s two right-lean...

WINNIPEG - The president of the Ghanian Union of Manitoba says a 57-year-old woman who died last week south of the border at Emerson, Man., was trying to get to Toronto to visit her only child, a daug...

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - A Saskatchewan woman who briefly dated Elizabeth Wettlaufer said she figured the woman was a bit off, but “I didn’t know she was that far off.” Sheila Andrews ...

MONTREAL - A private Montreal elementary school is moving to quell public fears following media reports about Karla Homolka doing some volunteer work there. The school, which is operated by the Sevent...