Category Archives: Canada

SOUTH WEST OXFORD TOWNSHIP, Ont. - Police in southwestern Ontario are looking for thieves who made off with a lot of cheese. Ontario Provincial Police say the Village Cheese Mill in South West Oxford ...

OTTAWA - Cynicism snaked through the corridors of Parliament Hill this week, lurking behind two competing claims of tolerance. A Conservative motion to condemn all forms of racism was soundly defeated...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - New Brunswick police say no charges will be laid after a brawl between players of two National Basketball League of Canada teams. Saint John police Sgt. Chuck Breen says two players...

OTTAWA - Candidates for leadership of the federal Conservative party went four rounds Friday in a debate aimed at providing an opportunity for a deep dive into policy. But the cut-and-thrust of politi...

SOUTH PORCUPINE, Ont. - A northern Ontario First Nation is mourning the “terrible loss” of a 29-year-old pregnant mother, her two young sons and the children’s grandmother in a colli...

DARTMOUTH, N.S. - Nova Scotia RCMP say a drug trafficking investigation that began in Cape Breton has uncovered a conspiracy to import more than one tonne of cocaine into Canada from Colombia. Mountie...

Polar bears in two High Arctic populations seem to be doing better than scientists had thought. The first major study of the Baffin Bay and Kane Basin populations in about 20 years has found more bear...

SHELBURNE, N.S. - Nova Scotia fisheries officials are investigating after a winter storm damaged an aquaculture pen in Shelburne Harbour, apparently releasing some salmon. Fisheries Minister Keith Col...

NEW GLASGOW, N.S. - A Nova Scotia physician charged with voyeurism after medical clinic staff were surreptitiously filmed in the washroom has approval to practice again. Dr. Rafid al-Nassar, a 41-year...

WINNIPEG - Police in Winnipeg are looking for a man who sprayed or deposited what they say may have been a bodily fluid on a teenage girl’s clothing. The girl and some friends were shopping at t...