Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - Sixteen Nova Scotians have died through assisted suicide, according to the provincial health authority. The Nova Scotia Health Authority initially refused to release the numbers, citing priv...

EDMONTON - The president of the company behind the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion proposal has backed off earlier remarks in which he suggested he was unsure humans are contributing to climate chan...

TORONTO - Ontario’s first female leader says the task of shattering glass ceilings “just got a little bit harder” after Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump in the American e...

TORONTO - Public consultations carried out by the federal government suggest there is “strong support” for reopening prison farms that were shut down across the country six years ago. The ...

WASHINGTON - He saw his friendships strained, his methods challenged, but in the end he was right again. Allan Lichtman has now predicted nine consecutive presidential election results based on a mode...

SURREY, B.C. - The case against a man accused of stabbing two girls at an Abbotsford, B.C., high school will move ahead despite the man’s persistent silence, a judge says. The court heard on Wed...

Vancouver is proposing a one-per-cent tax on the value of empty homes in an effort to increase the vacancy rate in the city’s incredibly tight rental market. Mayor Gregor Robertson unveiled the ...

CALGARY - TransCanada Corp. says it’s evaluating ways to engage the newly elected Donald Trump administration on the potential benefits of the Keystone XL pipeline. Company spokesman Mark Cooper...

CALGARY - A man facing trial for the second time in a high-profile sexual assault case said Wednesday his accuser never directly told him it was OK for the two of them to have sex in a bathroom at a h...

EDMONTON - An Edmonton man who cut off his victim’s thumb after abducting him has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Steven Vollrath was found guilty in June of kidnapping, aggravating assaul...