Category Archives: Canada

VANCOUVER - The University of British Columbia is seeking a new creative writing chair following its high-profile firing of author Steven Galloway in June. The university says in a job posting on its ...

Toronto is one step closer to imposing road tolls on two major commuter highways after city council voted overwhelmingly in favour of the project. Councillors voted 32-9 Tuesday night to ask the provi...

OTTAWA - Drivers in some jurisdictions may soon find themselves asked by police to volunteer for a saliva test, part of a pilot project aimed at detecting drug-impaired drivers. The federal government...

TORONTO - Ontario’s lengthy dispute with its doctors escalated Wednesday as the province’s medical association dismissed as “unreasonable” a government proposal that would see ...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government may not be winning friends among Canada’s premiers as they try to wring more health-care funding out of Ottawa, but its hard line seems to be garnering support fr...

MONTREAL - Several pot dispensaries set to open in Montreal on Thursday will be selling marijuana to recreational users despite federal rules that forbid such shops. Jodie Emery, a marijuana activist ...

VANCOUVER - David Strangway, a geophysicist who served as president of the University of British Columbia from 1985 to 1997 and worked for NASA during the Apollo space missions, has died. University p...

PICTOU, N.S. - A former Nova Scotia teacher with bipolar disorder who sexually abused one teenage male student and sent sexually explicit texts to another has been sentenced to 15 months of house arre...

OAK BAY, B.C. - Residents of a picturesque community on Vancouver Island have had enough of deer munching on their prized gardens, so a group is looking at whether birth control might help rein in the...

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - Police in New Westminster, B.C., say a 39-year-old “high-risk” woman and her newborn baby have been found safe. The New Westminster Police Department had asked the ...