Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The New Democrats say they plan to turn up the political pressure on the Liberal government to take action on First Nations child welfare. The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ruled that th...

OAK BAY, B.C. - A bowl of nuts helped officers in Oak Bay, B.C., tail a suspected burglar. But as Const. Sheri Lucas investigated what appeared to be a break-in at a home in the Victoria suburb, she q...

ANTIGONISH, N.S. - The day Brian Mulroney showed up for classes at St. Francis Xavier University in 1955, he was carrying a cardboard suitcase and wearing the only blazer he had. Canada’s 18th p...

Alcohol, not hate, fuelled a break-in and extensive vandalism at a Muslim centre in a remote part of Quebec, say provincial police. “It’s the first business he (the accused) saw after he l...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Two suspects in a string of nationwide jewelry heists appeared briefly Wednesday in a New Brunswick provincial court facing diamond-theft charges. Seventy-year-old Grigori Zaharov a...

OTTAWA - A spokesman for the minister of international trade says a Canadian delegation would not be heading off to Europe on Wednesday to sign what would be a landmark trade deal with the European Un...

HALIFAX - Officials running the Atlantic Lottery Corp. spent thousands of dollars on lavish dinners and Christmas parties, boosted executive salaries and handed out generous perks to politicians, acco...

BRUSSELS - The president of the European Union still hopes that a free trade between the bloc and Canada can be signed at a summit this week despite Belgium’s refusal so far to sign on. Donald T...

Six stories in the news for Wednesday, Oct. 26 --- N.L., ABORIGINAL LEADERS MAKE PROGRESS IN MARATHON MEETING Indigenous leaders and the Newfoundland and Labrador provincial government came out of a m...

CALGARY - The National Energy Board has downgraded its long-term outlook for oil prices and Canadian production in the face of lower global industry costs and stricter environmental regulations. In an...