Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - Fishery organizations in Atlantic Canada say they are frustrated with the rollout of new federal fishing vessel safety regulations scheduled to take effect in July, but Ottawa says they̵...

TORONTO - An Ontario student has been fined $25,000 for accessing personal health information, which provincial officials say is the highest penalty of its kind ever in Canada. The Information and Pri...

Six stories in the news for Friday, March 17: --- O’LEARY ALLEGES ‘VOTE RIGGING’ IN LEADERSHIP RACE The Conservative party is investigating allegations from leadership hopeful Kevin ...

HALIFAX - Marcus James said he’s been arrested three times while locking up the library where he works in Halifax’s historically black north end - twice by police officers he had trained a...

CALGARY - Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Jason Kenney says he’s confident of winning, but willing to move to Plan B if the party won’t follow his plan to merge with the Wild...

OTTAWA - Irish rock star Bono may be a self-declared fan of Justin Trudeau’s feminist foreign aid approach, but now his international organization says it is disappointed by the absence of new m...

CALGARY - A man who strapped more than 100 helium balloons to a lawn chair and soared above the Calgary Stampede grounds apologized Friday for the danger he caused, but said he doesn’t regret hi...

HAMILTON - A Canadian man of Kazakh origins arrested in a massive hack of Yahoo emails appeared briefly via video in a Hamilton court Friday, where a date was set for his bail hearing. Twenty-two-year...

OTTAWA - The federal Conservative party removed more than 1,300 people from its membership rolls Friday following a review triggered by leadership hopeful Kevin O’Leary’s accusation that o...

VICTORIA - A private member’s bill that would make it illegal for employers to require female workers to wear high heels on the job died when the British Columbia legislature adjourned on Thursd...