Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Efforts underway to give asylum to 1,200 primarily Yazidi refugees by year end should help bolster people’s confidence in government, says Interim Opposition leader Rona Ambrose. At a t...

CALGARY - The B.C. social worker who unsuccessfully tried to prevent Alexandru Radita from being returned to his parents’ home hopes his tragic and painful death nearly four years ago will lead ...

TORONTO - The Transportation Safety Board is investigating after an Air Canada plane briefly left the runway while landing at Toronto Pearson Airport. Air Canada spokeswoman Isabelle Arthur says the a...

TORONTO - No winning was sold for the $10 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. The jackpot for the next draw on Mar. 3 will be approximately $17 million. The Canadian Press

Calgary fire officials say they’ve determined that a large piece of ice that crashed through the roof of a home in the city came from a passing airplane. Emergency crews were called to the home ...

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - The fire chief who offered regular updates to Canadians during last May's enormous wildfire in Fort McMurray, Alta., has officially retired. Darby Allen celebrated his retiremen...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba's attorney general and three chief justices are calling on the federal government to overhaul preliminary inquiry requirements in the province. The letter was sent to Justice Minis...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A jury has acquitted a Newfoundland police officer of sexually assaulting an intoxicated woman he drove home from a bar while on duty. Const. Carl Douglas Snelgrove of the Roy...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government is broadening its investigation into allegations of corruption and wrongdoing within the Montreal police force, Public Security Minister Martin Coiteux announced Frida...

Highlights from the news file for Friday, Feb. 24 --- CONSERVATIVE CONFERENCE HEARS FROM POPULISTS: Conservatives gathered in Ottawa for the annual Manning conference heard from the man the event is n...