Category Archives: Canada

Royal Dutch Shell’s deal to sell off most of its Canadian oilsands holdings shows the waning appeal of the higher-cost sector for foreign investors at a time of soft crude prices and abundant gl...

YORKTON, Sask. - The military says a search-and-rescue technician who died in a training accident in Saskatchewan had a parachute malfunction. Master Cpl. Alfred Barr was a member of 435 Transport and...

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - A man whose family said they hadn’t seen him since a wildfire forced the evacuation of Fort McMurray last May has been found alive and well. Last week, Alberta RCMP asked ...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s fisheries minister says he’s concerned Cooke Aquaculture hasn’t “gone to the public enough” about a recent fish kill at one of its salmon farming ...

MONTREAL - A man kidnapped at gunpoint under mysterious circumstances from his home near Montreal and later released is the president of the Cora breakfast restaurant chain, the company confirmed Thur...

VANCOUVER - Emergency crews in Vancouver say they are dealing with an “extremely high” number of overdose calls, including 174 last week. The city says the number of overdose calls Vancouv...

EDMONTON - Alberta is hiring a total of 50 more prosecutors to clear a backlog that is forcing the Crown to stay hundreds of charges, including cases of impaired driving. Justice Minister Kathleen Gan...

HALIFAX - A Halifax cab driver who was acquitted last week of sexually assaulting an intoxicated woman in the back of his taxi in 2015 was questioned after similar allegations three years earlier, acc...

Federal Justice Robin Camp is resigning after the Canadian Judicial Council recommended he be removed from the bench after making inappropriate remarks when he was a provincial court judge presiding o...

OTTAWA - “What we’re seeing now is that people are crossing illegally trying to seek asylum here in Canada, risking life and limb.” - NDP immigration critic Jenny Kwan. “What i...