Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The country’s top soldier is pushing back against suggestions the Liberal government wants to use Canadian troops for political purposes by deploying them on United Nations peacekeeping...

MONTREAL - Friends and former colleagues and students of a jailed Canadian-Iranian academic still can’t believe she’s behind bars in Iran, several of them said Wednesday at a rally calling...

OTTAWA - More must be done to improve the lives of young people in First Nations communities, Justin Trudeau conceded Wednesday, even as he refused to acknowledge an outstanding human rights decision ...

OTTAWA - It has been something of a taboo in Canada-China relations, a subject rarely raised in public but clearly on the minds of successive Canadian governments in their uneasy courtship of the worl...

OTTAWA - Elections Canada experienced some headaches dealing with the longest federal campaign in modern Canadian history, says a new report from the chief electoral officer. Chief electoral officer M...

BANFF, Alta. - A woman was killed and a man was injured when they were struck by a tour bus in Banff National Park on Wednesday. Police said the two passengers got off the bus and were hit when the em...

CALGARY - The CEO of Imperial Oil said Wednesday he’s confident that two multibillion-dollar oilsands projects facing regulatory review in Alberta will be approved, despite the NDP government...

FORT MCKAY, Alta. - A major study of air quality in a northern Alberta indigenous community surrounded by oilsands development suggests there is a chance ongoing exposure to airborne chemicals may be ...

EDMONTON - Police have charged a self-proclaimed Freeman on the Land with carrying out a “paper terrorism” campaign against a peace officer who issued him a speeding ticket. Allen Boisjoli...

HALIFAX - A Halifax police officer says he considered whether he would ultimately need his weapon to save his life as he dealt with an agitated couple he had stopped on a highway near the city last Se...