Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The federal government is contributing $2.9 million for a program to help veterans struggling with mental health problems to find jobs. The money is going to the Mood Disorders Society of Can...

Parks Canada scientists are already panting with impatience to return to the “dramatic, pristine” wreck found in the Arctic earlier this month that has now been positively identified as th...

HALIFAX - In a dark corner of the Atlantic Ocean, amid a pair of steep-sided canyons far off the southwest coast of Nova Scotia, there’s a welcoming home for schools of fish decorated with coral...

TORONTO - Home Depot Canada says it has pulled a Halloween window decoration that mimics a peeping Tom from its stores after a complaint from a customer. The home renovation chain says it took “...

OTTAWA - Maryam Monsef could be stripped of her citizenship without a hearing under a law the Liberals denounced while in opposition but which they’ve been enforcing aggressively since taking po...

TORONTO - The current vaccine for pertussis, or whooping cough, is highly effective during the first three years after children get their shots, but immunity wanes over the next several years, leaving...

CALGARY - Police say about 20 witnesses, including several members of the Calgary Stampeders, were interviewed following the weekend shooting death of their teammate, Mylan Hicks. A 19-year-old man wa...

TORONTO - A man is in life-threatening condition after being encased in hot tar that solidified during an industrial accident in Toronto on Monday morning. Rescuers worked for more than an hour to fre...

MONTREAL - Retired Canadian-Iranian professor Homa Hoodfar has been released from an Iranian prison and is recovering with family in Oman, her friends and colleagues confirmed Monday, four months afte...

FORT ELLIS, N.S. - Mi’kmaq protesters blocked access to a construction site near proposed natural gas storage caverns in Nova Scotia, saying the project threatens a tidal river that passes throu...