Category Archives: Canada

VICTORIA - Alberta’s loss is British Columbia’s gain as fears of labour shortages for the construction of the massive Site C dam evaporate amid a slump in the oil and gas industry, says a ...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Police say a Mountie has been shot and injured while trying to stop a vehicle near the community of Golden, in southeastern British Columbia. RCMP spokesman Staff Sgt. Rob Vermeulen s...

EDMONTON - A judge has stayed a first-degree murder charge after it took the case more than five years to get to trial in Edmonton. A jury trial was to begin next week for 29-year-old Lance Matthew Re...

LEWISPORTE, N.L. - Seven dolphins were found dead Tuesday in a small Newfoundland fishing village, after beaching themselves during rough weather. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans said the white...

OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau used his Instagram account to promote a different sort of gender equality Tuesday: spouse Sophie finally getting with the social media program. Sophie Gregoire Trudeau used the...

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, Oct. 11 STORM WREAKS HAVOC IN ATLANTIC CANADA: Cleanup efforts were underway Tuesday in the wake of a Hurricane Matthew-related storm that brought torrential...

TORONTO - Blue Jays broadcaster Jerry Howarth won’t be using the word “Indians” when he calls the American League Championship Series between Toronto and Cleveland, and he says he ha...

OTTAWA - A joint statement on the free trade deal between Canada and the European Union is aimed at mollifying its opponents, sources say - including restive Walloons in Belgium who are threatening to...

TORONTO - Ontario’s highest court has dismissed a challenge to the province’s endangered species regulations, a decision environmental groups say will leave many species without legal prot...

TORONTO - As the union representing auto workers turns its attention to its final target, Unifor president Jerry Dias says that securing investment for Ford’s engine plant in Windsor, Ont., is h...