Category Archives: Canada

VANCOUVER - Home sales across the Vancouver area were down dramatically in February compared with last year’s record-breaking pace, while prices across the region remained more stable. The Real ...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Police in Newfoundland say a man who shot his 37-year-old grandson while out hunting thought he was firing at a rabbit. They arrived at a St. John’s hospital Wednesday a...

TORONTO - The Toronto Zoo is citing a baby animal boom as one of the main reasons for its first attendance increase in several years. In an annual review presented to its board, the city-owned facilit...

OTTAWA - The fallout from climate change and the actions needed to deal with it are poised to have “material and pervasive” effects on the economy and its financial system, a senior Bank o...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba aid agencies warned Thursday they are becoming overwhelmed by a wave of refugee claimants coming across the U.S. border near the community of Emerson. Some 169 people have crossed ...

TORONTO - Soaring electricity bills in Ontario will see an average 17-per-cent cut this summer, a year before the provincial Liberals bid for re-election, but those savings will ultimately cost ratepa...

TORONTO - Canadian securities regulators have formed a task force to raise awareness and help protect investors from so-called binary options scams. The Canadian Securities Administrators says the num...

The family of a southern Ontario teen who suffered severe brain injuries after being impaled by a sawed-off golf club during gym class has filed a lawsuit for more than $20 million. Madison Arseneault...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration has been looking north lately for some guidance on policy-making. The latest example appears to be Canada’s reform a generation ago of its air-traffic contr...

HALIFAX - A Halifax taxi driver has been acquitted of sexually assaulting a young woman who was found drunk and unconscious in his cab, prompting a renewed debate over how Canadian courts react when t...