Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Lisa Raitt’s voice broke with emotion Wednesday as she urged Canadians to speak out about a disease that affects hundreds of thousands of people across the country. Rait...

TORONTO - Conservative leadership hopeful Brad Trost raised some eyebrows Wednesday when he compared Ontario’s new sex-education curriculum to residential schools. Trost joined a couple hundred ...

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Sept. 21 ____ TOP SOLDIER SAYS CANADA WON’T GIVE UP COMMAND OF TROOPS TO UN: Canada’s top soldier says the military has learned from the mistak...

TORONTO - There’s no question medical students have to cram in a lot of information on their way to becoming full-fledged doctors, and a new Canadian teaching website aims to make that journey a...

NEW YORK - Every province could soon have either a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system, Catherine McKenna signalled Wednesday as the environment minister prepares a long-awaited plan that promises to...

HALIFAX - A web site featuring intimate images of women from one Nova Scotia region, apparently posted without their consent, has been taken down amid an RCMP investigation. Cpl. Jennifer Clarke said ...

WAINWRIGHT, Alta. - A Canadian Army officer in Alberta faces 22 criminal charges including sexual assault with a weapon. Capt. Malcolm Grace, who is 45, is to appear in Wainwright provincial court on ...

PORTLAND, Maine - The United States and Canada have brokered a deal to share what’s left of the dwindling North American cod fishing business in the Atlantic next year. Both countries fish for c...

LONDON, Ont. - A southwestern Ontario couple who kept their 10-year-old nephew locked in a squalid bedroom for two years were sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in jail plus two years probation. The 45-...

OTTAWA - Western military intervention may have prevented a “short-term calamity” in Iraq, but it is only the start of a long effort to bring peace and stability to the country, says Canad...