Category Archives: Canada

CORNER BROOK, N.L. - People in a Newfoundland fishing village are mourning the deaths of a couple who were run down as they walked home from a Christmas gathering, allegedly by a relative now facing c...

CHATHAM-KENT, Ont. - A police force in southwestern Ontario has released a list of the silliest 911 calls it received in 2016, including one where a resident called the emergency line asking for the p...

Canada’s female swimmers soared to unexpected heights in 2016. Six Olympic medals followed by another seven in home water at the world short-course championship launched Canada as a world power ...

CALGARY - The increasingly divisive debate over pipelines, with the economic benefits and environmental concerns they carry, has been selected as The Canadian Press business story of the year. In an a...

PLYMPTON, N.S. - Massive numbers of dead starfish, clams, lobsters and mussels have washed up on a western Nova Scotia beach, compounding the mysterious deaths of tens of thousands of herring in the a...

HALIFAX - Like any regular federal politician, former Conservative cabinet minister Rob Moore is a busy man these days. Based in Saint John, N.B., he often travels to Ottawa to attend meetings of the ...

Five stories in the news for Wednesday, Dec. 28 --- STILL NO SIGN OF MISSING HIKERS ON B.C. MOUNTAIN A search will resume at first light for two hikers missing since Monday on B.C.’s Cypress Mou...

TORONTO - Here is a list of Canada’s biggest weather stories of the year as compiled by the country’s top meteorologists. 1. Wildfire in Fort McMurray, Alta. 2. Super El Nino cancels winte...

TORONTO - The “beast” of a wildfire that charred Fort McMurray, Alta., was named Canada’s biggest weather story of the year in an annual list compiled by the country’s top mete...

OTTAWA - Some 33 per cent of Canadians who participated in a recent poll conducted by the Canadian Automobile Association admit they have texted while stopped at a red light in the last month. That...