Category Archives: Canada

Five stories in the news for Monday, Feb. 20: --- FEDERAL PROGRAM ADMIN COSTS OUTSTRIP GRANT PAYMENTS: A federal fund set up to give financial help to parents whose children have been murdered or gone...

MONTREAL - Quebec, the world’s largest producer of maple syrup, is ramping up output as it fends off rising competition from the U.S. and neighbouring provinces as well as a farmer rebellion fro...

TORONTO - Young children whose mothers have been prescribed an opioid are at an increased risk of being hospitalized for an overdose from the potent pain medications, most often through accidental ing...

VANCOUVER - An unofficial Conservative leadership debate Sunday was a mostly cordial affair that only saw a few sharp exchanges, such as whether to scrap the Liberal government’s proposed carbon...

MONTREAL - Two Conservative MPs are calling on the federal government to act to stop the flow of people illegally crossing the United States border into Canada. Michelle Rempel and Tony Clement tweete...

NANAIMO, B.C. - Hundreds of boxes of a limited-edition pasta have filled the home of a family in Nanaimo, B.C., following a plea to help their autistic son. Reed Botwright put out a call on social med...

PERSIAN GULF - Canadian military aircraft are once again over the skies of Syria, helping to identify targets in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant months after the Liberals pu...

OTTAWA - Veteran human-rights crusader Maude Barlow loathes all that Donald Trump stands for, except for one thing: his stance against economic globalization. Ironically, the U.S. president has emerge...

PALM BEACH, Fla. - Former prime minister Brian Mulroney apparently sang to U.S. President Donald Trump at the Mar-a-Lago in Florida Saturday night. A video posted on social media that appeared to be t...

HALIFAX - Maritimers are struggling to dig themselves out of back-to-back snow dumps that have walloped the East Coast. A major storm clobbered Atlantic Canada last week, burying vast swaths of the re...