Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - Canadian lumber and government officials told the U.S. trade representative that any new softwood lumber agreement must reflect the differences in forestry regimes across the country. The c...

OTTAWA - The House of Commons voted Wednesday to ratify the Paris agreement on climate change, cementing a cornerstone of the Liberal government’s environmental policy and helping to tip the sca...

CALGARY - A former real-estate investment executive who pleaded guilty to his part in a multimillion-dollar fraud will not be serving time behind bars. Varun Aurora has been sentenced to two years les...

VANCOUVER - An activist organization’s campaign to keep Donald Trump out of the White House is spilling across the border into Canada as the group ramps up efforts to convince U.S. voters living...

WASHINGTON - A Canadian general who directs training of Iraqi security forces says the widely anticipated ousting of the Islamic State group from its stronghold of Mosul in northern Iraq is likely to ...

QUEBEC - Philippe Couillard’s poetic side emerged Wednesday as he invoked Moliere and Samuel Beckett in paying tribute to Parti Quebecois member Sylvain Gaudreault. The Quebec premier stood up i...

TORONTO - After sending out a tweet in support of the federal government’s proposed carbon pricing plan, Telus has issued an apology to angry customers threatening to take their business elsewhe...

VANCOUVER - Three groups that were once labelled enemies of the province by a British Columbia premier have been given an international award for their work in helping to protect the Great Bear Rainfo...

OTTAWA - Nunavut officials are questioning whether researchers who found HMS Terror had proper authorization to search for the doomed Franklin Expedition ship, prompting the explorers to wonder if the...

WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg man says he expected he would get a call someday about the death of his 99-year-old mother - but not one that would turn out to be a mistake. Dan Nemis says his mother, Sophie, w...