Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s public school teachers are set to conduct a one-day strike today - a historic first in the union’s 122-year history. The Nova Scotia Teachers Union is protesting th...

HALIFAX - Gabriel Sylliboy died feeling like he failed his Mi’kmaq people. The grand chief launched a fight for aboriginal rights after being charged with illegal hunting in the 1920s, but the c...

HALIFAX - Much of Atlantic Canada was slogging through yet another bout of nasty winter weather Thursday that closed schools and government offices again, even as people continued digging out from an ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump gave reassuring words to Canada this week when he lauded an outstanding trading relationship and suggested that changes to the North American Free Trade Agreem...

OTTAWA - The federal government is facing mounting pressure, including from within the Liberal caucus, to change the name of the building that houses the Prime Minister’s Office - the Langevin B...

Five stories in the news for Thursday, Feb. 16: --- TRUDEAU TO ADDRESS EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT TODAY Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers a much-anticipated address to the European Parliament today, whe...

SELKIRK, Man. - Police in Manitoba are trying to find a baby and her mother who wasn’t supposed to leave her local area and may have travelled west to Alberta. RCMP in Selkirk say they received ...

Current speed limits for Canada’s oil-carrying freight trains may be too high to prevent serious accidents and should be re-evaluated, the Transportation Safety Board said Thursday as it release...

CALGARY - Canada’s producers of peas and lentils are preparing for the possibility that their largest market may soon shut down imports because of a purported problem with pests. For more than a...

About 30 years ago an Ontario man stuffed a wad of cash and banking documents inside a box, opened up the back of his television and hid the package inside. He then didn’t give it much thought u...