Category Archives: Canada

YORKTON, Sask. - A search and rescue technician with the Royal Canadian Air Force has died in a training accident near Yorkton, Sask. Master-Corporal Alfred Barr was a member of 435 Transport and Resc...

MONTREAL - A 26-year-old high school teacher who was a virtual political unknown defeated a former provincial cabinet minister Wednesday to win the Liberal nomination for a federal byelection in a Mon...

TORONTO - A longtime Toronto teacher with a passion for photography and travel has been fatally stabbed in Costa Rica in what local media said was an apparent mugging gone wrong. The Toronto District ...

BRANDON, Man. - A Winnipeg truck driver is thanking a woman who jumped on her horse and brought him coffee and a hot meal while he was stranded on Highway 10 south of Brandon during this week’s ...

EDMONTON - Alberta Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley says new guidelines to manage court files will not see serious, violent cases like murder or sexual assault sacrificed to save time and money. ̶...

VANCOUVER - Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen is facing calls to reverse the deportation of a 59-year-old man with bipolar disorder who lived in Canada since he was eight months old. Len Van Heest of ...

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, March 8 --- BORDER-CROSSERS FACE BLIZZARD IN MANITOBA: Nineteen asylum-seekers braved a fierce overnight blizzard to cross into Canada near the Manitoba bo...

TORONTO - Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau and Canada’s five biggest banks are set to announce Thursday a new fund aimed at helping small- and medium-sized businesses access cash to help th...

VICTORIA - British Columbia’s trade envoy on softwood lumber says the province is ready to fight on behalf of its lumber producers, but isn’t looking to become embroiled in a costly and le...

EDMONTON - An Edmonton mother has been charged after her seven-month-old infant was left in a parked vehicle while the temperature outside was -28 C. Police say officers rescued the child from the bac...