Category Archives: Canada

ST-HYACINTHE, Que. - Two Quebec teens who allegedly plotted to kill fellow classmates will return to court next month. They appeared in court in St-Hyacinthe today as the Crown asked for its own exper...

OTTAWA - The country posted back-to-back monthly trade surpluses for the first time since September 2014, boosted by higher prices for exports of oil and natural gas in December, Statistics Canada sai...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The creation of a unique Newfoundland aboriginal band meant to help rectify historical injustices against Mi’kmaq has prompted anger and confusion, as tens of thousands ...

HALIFAX - A Halifax professor who has partnered with Tesla to make better lithium-ion batteries - and, he hopes, help mitigate climate change - has won Canada’s top science award. Dr. Jeff Dahn ...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The day after Const. Joe Smyth of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary fatally shot Don Dunphy, an RCMP investigator reassured him during questioning that he’d acted in s...

OTTAWA - With just days to go before the very first release of data from the 2016 census, there is an unusual calm outside Marc Hamel’s Statistics Canada office. A calm before the storm, perhaps...

Five stories in the news for Tuesday, Feb. 7 --- BUDGET DAY IN NEW BRUNSWICK New Brunswick Finance Minister Cathy Rogers will present the provincial budget today, and it is expected to include targete...

VANCOUVER - The sight of an ungainly and mostly hairless white moose trudging into a northern British Columbia town has become the most visible sign of the winter tick problem in the province. The par...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick’s government is piling on more debt in its 2017-18 budget as the Liberals opt for targeted spending increases rather than a quicker assault on the deficit. Finance Mi...

CALGARY - A cross-country tour of the panel looking into the future of the National Energy Board heads to Vancouver this week, where many expressed dismay at the workings of the regulator following it...