Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - A man who witnessed a “horrific” daytime attack in an upscale Toronto neighbourhood recalled Wednesday seeing a prominent criminal defence lawyer crawl towards his office after b...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia is bombarding the province with thousands of overdose-reversing naloxone kits as part of an all-out assault against a drug crisis that has killed 488 people so far this ye...

CALGARY - A man and his common-law wife are dead after what police believe was a targeted, gang-related shooting in Calgary. Investigators say officers found the body of the 38-year-old man in the fro...

MONTREAL - Two pythons on the lam in Quebec are in a race against Mother Nature as temperatures begin to dip in the coming weeks. One expert says it’s already pretty cold for the two fugitives a...

CHARLOTTETOWN - Traffic slowed to a crawl and offices emptied across Prince Edward Island Wednesday as parents raced to collect their kids in the wake of province-wide school evacuations triggered by ...

ANTIGONISH, N.S. - A year ago, members of the Hadhad family were living as refugees after fleeing the war in Syria - but now they’re running a booming chocolate business in Nova Scotia with Prim...

TORONTO - A pair of new studies from Statistics Canada highlight the importance of incorporating physical activity throughout the day for children of all ages, experts said Wednesday. The national sta...

HALIFAX - Shell has abandoned the first of its deepwater exploration wells off Nova Scotia, saying it didn’t find enough oil for commercial production. Work on the Cheshire well, about 250 kilom...

LONDON - Researchers have identified a Canadian company at the centre of a small Arab nation’s online censorship system - a finding that sits awkwardly with Ottawa officials’ public suppor...

OTTAWA - Labour Minister MaryAnn Mihychuk says she expects to “see changes” flow from a legislative review concerning harassment issues within the RCMP after hearing from a disgruntled fem...