Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - The Montreal-area city of Westmount says it has reached a settlement with the sex-abuse victims of one of its former employees. John Garland worked for the city’s parks and recreation...

TORONTO - A $300-million lawsuit filed by a multinational forest giant against Greenpeace under American racketeering laws enacted to deal with organized crime is simply an intimidation tactic that wo...

WASHINGTON - A zombie project that has spent years haunting Canada-U.S. relations in its never-born-yet-never-quite-dead state of perpetual limbo has just been given hope of life by new U.S. President...

EDMONTON - Research has found that liquids released from fracked oil and gas wells can harm fish even at low concentrations. “When we put these frack fluids in, the fluids themselves generate ch...

HALIFAX - It’s John Diefenbaker as you’ve never seen him - standing on a chair, an intricate miniature statue of the 13th prime minister in a quirky exhibition that captures 150 years of C...

KINGSTON, Ont. - A 49-year-old man is facing charges after allegedly waving a sword and threatening to behead a woman who offered him coffee. Police in Kingston, Ont. say the weekend encounter took pl...

A bald eagle is missing at an Ontario zoo after the bird’s enclosure was vandalized. Gordon John, the acting parks manager at Chippewa Wildlife Park in Thunder Bay, Ont., said someone snuck into...

OTTAWA - Two of the world’s biggest digital information platforms say they’re getting ready to roll out tools in Canada designed to crack down on so-called “fake news.” The phe...

OTTAWA - The Federal Court has dismissed a challenge by a Quebec law professor to condemn the federal government’s $15-billion sale of light armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia. University of Mont...

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