Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - A Quebec man accused of wanting to leave Canada to join the Islamic State in Syria says he was desperate to reach his wife and young kids and get them away from his dangerous, threatening b...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A water treatment plant in Kamloops, B.C., is back in operation, but residents were still being asked to watch their water usage. A blown transformer caused the plant to shut down ear...

Conservative leadership hopeful Kevin O’Leary says the prime minister has ended up with a mediocre cabinet because he was more concerned about diversity than competence. O’Leary said he be...

TORONTO - Ontario’s complex systems for substitute legal decision-making need to be modernized and clarified in order to be more effective, the province’s law commission said Wednesday. A ...

A movie production team was denied permission to shoot in the Rocky Mountain national parks after Parks Canada staff learned the film’s plot involved an indigenous gang leader. “They expre...

WASHINGTON - NAFTA negotiations will probably start late this year, might take about a year, and will include serious changes that could see the addition of several entire new chapters to the landmark...

The Jefferson salamander, an endangered amphibian found only in southern Ontario, has begun to emerge from the ground along a small stretch of the Niagara escarpment and has been dodging cars as it cr...

REGINA - Chants of “no ifs, no buts, no public sector cuts” rang out on the front steps of the Saskatchewan legislature Wednesday as several hundred people rallied against the government. ...

Ever wonder what a dead blue whale smells like? A Fossil wrist watch that Mark Engstrom wore as he helped preserve the bones of Blue, a 24-metre female whose skeleton goes on display Saturday at the R...

EMERSON, Man. - Nineteen asylum-seekers braved a fierce blizzard and whiteout conditions on the open prairie to cross into Canada near the Manitoba border community of Emerson, the area’s reeve ...