Category Archives: Canada

GUELPH, Ont. - Campus police at an Ontario university say they’re searching for a snake believed to be loose in a building that houses the school’s administration offices, cafeteria and fo...

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Feb. 9 --- TRUDEAU TO MEET TRUMP ON MONDAY: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday in Washington. The Prime Minister...

MIRAMICHI, N.B. - A court appearance for two Halifax men charged with assaulting Dennis Oland in a New Brunswick prison was delayed Thursday. Convicted killer Cody Alexander Muise and Aaron Marriott, ...

HALIFAX - Premier Stephen McNeil says the Nova Scotia government is reviewing bizarre liquor laws that date back to the Prohibition era. Nova Scotia has 105 dry communities, most of them rural and una...

TORONTO - Shopify’s CEO is defending the e-commerce company’s decision to keep hosting an online store for the controversial right-wing U.S. media organization Breitbart News. Tobi Lutke p...

TORONTO - This season’s influenza vaccine is estimated to have been more than 40 per cent effective in preventing illness with the dominant H3N2 viral strain in Canadians who got their shots, a ...

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. - Frank Parnell says the spirit of the long-running All-Native Basketball Tournament in Prince Rupert on British Columbia’s north coast never left his body even though the la...

ANTIGONISH, N.S. - A speech by Marie Henein, Jian Ghomeshi’s lawyer, will go ahead at three Canadian universities Friday evening despite opposition from some students in Nova Scotia. The promine...

MONTREAL - The CEO of Air Canada said he hopes President Donald Trump’s promise Thursday to U.S. airline executives to cut taxes will spur similar action on this side of the border. Calin Rovine...

WHITEHORSE - A dog has died while competing in the gruelling, 1,600-kilometre Yukon Quest sled-dog race from Whitehorse to Fairbanks, Alaska. Competitor Yuka Honda, who is racing for Japan, reached Da...