Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Three leading mental health organizations want provincial and territorial health ministers to be open to targeted federal investments. In a letter, the heads of the Mental Health Commission o...

MONTREAL - The late Leonard Cohen grew up in Montreal. Here is a list of some of his haunts and other landmarks that played a key role in his life: Westmount, Que. - Wealthy town on the island of Mont...

MONTREAL - He would often sit at the counter of the coffee shop, wearing his signature dark suit and carrying a notebook. And before he left, Leonard Cohen would seek out every patron who had approach...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The top Republican in the U.S. Senate says he asked president-elect Donald Trump to move swiftly in approving construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline that would allow ...

WASHINGTON - A feeling of dread is rippling through one particular group in the United States, as hundreds of thousands of young people fear they might have to hide in society’s shadows during a...

MONTREAL - A man charged in a series of alleged break-ins and sexual assaults at a Quebec university student residence has been released on bail. Thierno-Ourny Barry, 19, is facing 12 charges, includi...

MONTREAL - Leonard Cohen - writer, poet, composer, singer, renowned seducer and, for many, the epitome of cool - has died at the age of 82. His sonorous, tobacco-painted baritone was once described as...

NIPAWIN, Sask. - A crowdfunding page has been set up to support the mother of a seven-year-old girl who was found dead in a northeastern Saskatchewan home. Police had issued an Amber Alert for Nia Eas...

MONTREAL - A Montreal man on trial for trying to board an airplane with explosives-related materials in his suitcase told a judge Friday he strongly believes he was set up. Antony Piazza, an Iranian-b...

Some key dates in the life and career of Leonard Cohen: Sept. 21, 1934: Leonard Cohen is born in Montreal. 1945: Cohen’s father dies. 1951: He enrols at McGill University, where he goes onto win...