Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Conservative leadership hopefuls made some last-ditch pitches for support Monday in advance of a key campaign deadline - and stanching the flow of illegal migrants across the Canada-U.S. bord...

A painting by Nova Scotia folk artist Maud Lewis has turned up in a southern Ontario thrift shop. Volunteers at the Mennonite Central Committee Thrift Centre in New Hamburg, Ont., southwest of Kitchen...

WINNIPEG - Canada’s indigenous affairs minister says Manitoba child welfare should move away from rewarding the apprehension of children to focus more on keeping families together. “If age...

HALIFAX - Staff at Atlantic Canada’s largest hospital has had to perform CPR in elevators and hastily erect brown paper room dividers due to spillover from a crowded emergency department, says a...

TORONTO - Canadian cuisine might include a mix of culinary traditions, but the food of one of the country’s founding groups is largely missing. An emerging group of indigenous chefs and restaura...

OTTAWA - The person tasked with policing elections in Canada has laid five charges against a Nova Scotia man over allegations that he violated strict limits on political donations. The commissioner of...

HALIFAX - More than a decade after racial profiling was identified as a festering problem among some police forces, it is now being addressed in another sector: retailing. After years of complaints ab...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Almost 25 years after a sweeping commercial fishing ban that devastated Newfoundland, northern cod are making something of a comeback - sparking calls that the fishery be expa...

VANCOUVER - An accident on a jump “well within his skill level” in British Columbia’s backcountry has left Canadian snowboarding star Mark McMorris with serious injuries. A medal fav...

HALIFAX - Scores of people clad in white gathered Sunday for a healing service in a community gym across the street from a fire-ravaged historic church just outside Halifax. The service was originally...