Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Tom Green remembers watching Alan Thicke’s homegrown talk show as a kid in Pembroke, Ont., in the early 1980s. Green was only about seven but was entranced with Thicke’s baritone...

HALIFAX - A wealthy Halifax couple who took their quest for an oceanfront swimming pool all the way to Nova Scotia’s highest court have lost. John and Esther Ghosn built a mansion on the Northwe...

WINNIPEG - A former cabinet minister and arguably the most popular member of the Manitoba New Democratic Party caucus is quitting politics to spend more time with his family. Kevin Chief said Wednesda...

MONTREAL - The Quebec Court of Appeal has acquitted a man in the April 2000 slaying of a high-ranking Hells Angels member because a key prosecution witness admitted to lying on the stand. The court ac...

OTTAWA - Internal Defence Department records show post-traumatic stress as the top diagnosis for hundreds of troops at risk of being forced out of the military because they are too sick or injured for...

TORONTO - Canadian mortgage brokers say it’s unlikely the U.S. Federal Reserve’s rate hike will cause any significant boost in mortgage rates north of the border. “The bond market is...

OTTAWA - Canadian diplomats in Washington warned Ottawa earlier this year that a Donald Trump presidency would affect how the two countries co-operated on fighting climate change. They also levelled c...

WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg city councillor is apologizing after arguing city employees such as “grass cutters” and “pothole fillers” don’t need sensitivity training on residen...

A cardiologist says there’s no right age for someone to hang up their skates in the wake of Alan Thicke’s death from a heart attack after playing hockey with his son. The Canadian actor di...

TORONTO - Two survivors of a notorious Indian residential school will now have to wait several more months to find out whether the courts will even allow them to press their abuse compensation case. H...