Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Ontario’s lengthy dispute with its doctors escalated Wednesday as the province’s medical association dismissed as “unreasonable” a government proposal that would see ...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government may not be winning friends among Canada’s premiers as they try to wring more health-care funding out of Ottawa, but its hard line seems to be garnering support fr...

MONTREAL - Several pot dispensaries set to open in Montreal on Thursday will be selling marijuana to recreational users despite federal rules that forbid such shops. Jodie Emery, a marijuana activist ...

VANCOUVER - David Strangway, a geophysicist who served as president of the University of British Columbia from 1985 to 1997 and worked for NASA during the Apollo space missions, has died. University p...

PICTOU, N.S. - A former Nova Scotia teacher with bipolar disorder who sexually abused one teenage male student and sent sexually explicit texts to another has been sentenced to 15 months of house arre...

OAK BAY, B.C. - Residents of a picturesque community on Vancouver Island have had enough of deer munching on their prized gardens, so a group is looking at whether birth control might help rein in the...

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - Police in New Westminster, B.C., say a 39-year-old “high-risk” woman and her newborn baby have been found safe. The New Westminster Police Department had asked the ...

RICHMOND, B.C. - The Transportation Safety Board issued recommendations to the Transport Department on Wednesday aimed at the commercial fishing industry after the capsizing in September 2015 of a ves...

BATHURST, N.B. - Two police officers charged in the fatal shooting of a New Brunswick businessman they mistakenly thought was involved in the drug trade won’t find out until next year whether th...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government made a bid for peace with the province’s teachers union Wednesday, while another labour battle was brewing with public servants. Premier Stephen McNeil asked...