Category Archives: Canada

CROSSFIELD, Alta. - RCMP in southern Alberta have arrested a suspect after someone tried to break into a bank by driving a large tanker truck into it. Mounties from the Airdrie rural detachment were c...

TORONTO - Researchers at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children are poised to begin a clinical trial using cannabis extracts to treat children with severe epilepsy whose seizures can’t be co...

HALIFAX - Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie has formed a partnership with a prominent aboriginal leader to encourage corporate Canada to do more to promote dialogue and reconciliation with aborigina...

VICTORIA - British Columbia’s finance minister says a boost in personal income tax revenue contributed to increasing the province’s bottom line for the second quarter. Mike de Jong said in...

CALGARY - A quick look at the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project proposed by Kinder Morgan (NYSE:KMI): Estimated Cost: $6.8 billion Route: 1,150 kilometres between Strathcona County, Alta., eas...

CALGARY - A quick look at the Northern Gateway project proposed by Enbridge (TSX:ENB): Estimated Cost: $7.9 billion Route: 1,177 kilometres from Bruderheim, northeast of Edmonton, to a tanker port in ...

WINNIPEG - Some indigenous leaders say they will fight any pipeline projects or other work connected to expanding the oilsands in Alberta. Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, of the Union of British Columbia...

CORNER BROOK, N.L. - A 16-year-old Newfoundland boy who circulated nude pictures of a 15-year-old female schoolmate has been sentenced to 18 months’ probation for possession of child pornography...

CALGARY - A quick look at the Line 3 oil pipeline replacement project proposed by Enbridge (TSX:ENB): Estimated Cost: $7.5 billion Route: 1,660 kilometres between Hardisty, Alta., to Superior, Wisc. C...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau approved two major oil pipeline expansions Tuesday, including the deeply controversial Trans Mountain line through suburban Vancouver, while maintaining his gove...