Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - The Transportation Safety Board says emergency response efforts after a man fell off a party boat in Lake Ontario last year weren’t co-ordinated. Search efforts failed to locate 34-yea...

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Sept. 29 ___ ONE DEAD IN NEW JERSEY TRAIN CRASH: One person is dead and 108 people are injured after a New Jersey commuter train crashed into the Hoboken Te...

LA RONGE, Sask. - RCMP have charged a man in the abduction of two children following an Amber Alert in Saskatchewan. Mounties say a boy was picked up on Wednesday by a man driving a silver van near La...

OTTAWA - The first debate in the federal Conservative leadership campaign will take place Nov. 9 in Saskatoon - a change from the original Nov. 10 date. The party says the English-language debate will...

TORONTO - Bojana Sentaler is quickly learning just what it means to feel the full force of the “Kate effect.” Barely 24 hours after the Duchess of Cambridge appeared in a coat by the Toron...

TORONTO - When Raquel Grand’s wife was in the middle of a difficult childbirth five years ago, Grand realized that if she lost her partner that day she would not have the legal right to take the...

HALIFAX - In his suicide note, Gerald Rushton said he loved his common-law wife and her daughter. The Nova Scotia man wrote the note after he killed both of them in 2013 - using a claw hammer to bludg...

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is advising people who bought certain Samsung washing machines to only use the delicate cycle when washing bedding, water-resistant and bulky items because ...

A Toronto bride is crediting a newly arrived Syrian refugee with salvaging both her wedding gown and the day itself. Jo Du says the bridal gown that fit perfectly upon first try began falling apart ho...

RICHMOND, B.C. - A Vancouver-area city where nearly half the residents identify as ethnically Chinese is requiring that all bus-stop ads be at least 50-per-cent English. Richmond signed a contract ear...