Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Conservative leadership hopeful Kellie Leitch is proposing to scrap the CBC if she manages to reach the Prime Minister’s Office. Leitch, whose leadership campaign made headlines when sh...

LUNENBURG, N.S. - Work is underway to replace the heavy steel rudder on the Bluenose II, as the iconic schooner’s problem-plagued restoration finally appears headed toward a conclusion. Transpor...

HALIFAX - Ten Nova Scotia doctors are being investigated for irregularities in their prescribing practices for highly addictive opioids, as a monitoring system documents over 5,000 patients receiving ...

Shayla Bastarache was looking for a hairless, sphynx cat and thought she had found a good deal last month on Kijiji. A woman was selling sphynx kittens for $650 - less than half the cost from a breede...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq chiefs have accepted an apology from Premier Stephen McNeil for a controversial government legal brief that implied members of a First Nation band are a conquered p...

MONCTON, N.B. - Some of Canada’s most notorious dope-smoking louts will be brand ambassadors for a New Brunswick marijuana producer. OrganiGram Holdings Inc. (TSX:OGI) says TV’s Trailer Pa...

OTTAWA – Two activists, a poet, an engineer and an athlete are on the short list of five women whose image could appear on the next new series of Canadian bank notes due out in 2018. The Bank of...

MONROVIA, Liberia - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in the midst of a two-day visit to Liberia. Here are some facts about his visit and the country: - Trudeau says Canada will provide $10 million ove...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government has introduced Bill C-33, which will undo some of the measures brought in by the previous government in its controversial Fair Elections Act. Here’s a looked at t...

OTTAWA - Northwest Territories Premier Bob McLeod says the provinces and territories are pushing to make health-care spending a priority when they sit down next month with Prime Minister Justin Trudea...