Category Archives: Canada

VANCOUVER - A Sri Lankan man accused of human smuggling was the owner of the rickety cargo ship that transported hundreds of Tamil migrants from Thailand to British Columbia, a Crown prosecutor said i...

OTTAWA - Two of Russia’s nervous neighbours are urging the Trudeau Liberals to use Canada’s close relationship with the U.S. to encourage the incoming Trump administration not to become to...

MONTREAL - An immigration hearing for an American man known as the “Godfather of Grass” has been postponed until later this month for medical reasons. John Robert Boone, 73, will remain in...

HALIFAX - Gary Julien conjures an unnerving scene when describing his experience with Halifax’s growing rat problem. “They’re the size of small kittens - or somewhere between kittens...

TORONTO - An environmental group believes it may have found a source of ongoing mercury contamination that has plagued a northern Ontario First Nation for more than 50 years. The Grassy Narrows commun...

WINNIPEG - Orphaned male and female polar bear cubs brought to Winnipeg’s zoo late last year from the Hudson Bay port town of Churchill are no longer being referred to as just those two bruins. ...

TORONTO - Scientists have a gift for Canada as the country celebrates its 150th - and as a birthday present, it’s certainly unique. A team of molecular geneticists at Toronto’s Hospital fo...

HALIFAX - Family members and friends lined a dock on the Halifax waterfront Friday to welcome the return of a Royal Canadian Navy ship following a six-month deployment overseas. HMCS Charlottetown pul...

HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia woman who watched her grandmother descend into pain and die after receiving five times her weekly prescription says the supervising pharmacist should receive tougher sanctions....

DELTA, B.C. - A police department in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland is using technology that looks like it is taken from the latest Batman movie to track fleeing vehicles. Police in Delta hav...