Category Archives: Canada

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister accused the federal government of threatening to kill a multimillion-dollar research facility if the province continues to hold off on signing a health-care...

CALGARY - The premier of the Northwest Territories is blasting federal policies including promises to restrict greenhouse gas emissions that he says will stifle a viable energy sector in the North. Bo...

Scientists have found the world’s first large-scale area of acidified water in the open ocean in the seas of the western Arctic. “In other (oceans), you may have a small part with low pH, ...

DES MOINE, Iowa - Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall has told Iowa legislators that it’s important Canada and the United States enhance their trade relations, especially at a time when there is deba...

OTTAWA - Society failed the young Ottawa boy who endured being chained up, tortured and sexually abused at the hands of his father, a disgraced former RCMP officer, the victim’s maternal aunt to...

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - A fire that broke out at a Syncrude oilsands site in northern Alberta was the result of a supply line that broke and leaked light oil, a company spokesman said Wednesday. Crews ...

OTTAWA - Canada’s federal prison ombudsman is noting a steep decline in the use of solitary confinement in jails in the past two years, but remains concerned some inmates are facing long periods...

OTTAWA - The searing real estate market in Toronto and the surrounding areas helped push home sales up last month to their highest mark in nearly a year, the Canadian Real Estate Association said Wedn...

TORONTO - Canada’s financial consumer watchdog is launching a review of business practices among the major banks following reports citing unnamed employees who alleged the lenders were signing c...

OTTAWA - The amount Canadians owe compared with how much they earn hit another record high last year. Statistics Canada said the amount of household credit market debt rose to 167.3 per cent of adjust...