Category Archives: Canada

KANATA, Ont. - BlackBerry says it will spend about $100 million developing secure software, hoping to make itself indispensable for the burgeoning self-driving vehicle market. The company’s QNX ...

OTTAWA - A new report from Statistics Canada says almost one in every five young Canadians - about 1.1 million people - has been a victim of cyberbullying or cyberstalking. Within that group of 15 to ...

VANCOUVER - A blanket of heavy, wet snow cut off power to thousands in British Columbia and caused commuter chaos in Metro Vancouver on Monday. The snowfall caused trees or branches to come down over ...

SURREY, B.C. - RCMP in Surrey, B.C., were investigating after a five-year-old boy drowned in a bathtub. Police were called to a home in the Whalley neighbourhood just before 5 p.m. Sunday. They say fi...

Toronto police have begun a pilot project testing the use of roadside screening devices for drug-impaired driving. The project - which continues through to next spring - will test how well officers ar...

FREDERICTON - The University of New Brunswick is reinstating women’s varsity hockey following a 10-year absence and a lengthy battle over human rights. “I’m very pleased and very pro...

BURGEO, N.L. - Linda Vatcher made the trip home to Newfoundland’s south coast every year, often offering up a hug and a smile to many people she ran into. “She was just an infectious perso...

OTTAWA - The federal government pulled billions of dollars off the negotiating table Monday after failing to reach a long-term health-care funding agreement with frustrated provincial and territorial ...

Four stories in the news for Monday, Dec. 19 --- FEDS AND PROVINCES DICKER OVER HEALTH CARE FUNDING Canada’s finance and health ministers meet today to try to reach an agreement on federal fundi...

OTTAWA - The federal government is to sit down Monday with the provinces for some tough negotiations on the future of health-care funding in Canada. Shortly before a Sunday dinner meeting with their f...