Category Archives: Canada

SASKATOON - Hockey legend Gordie Howe is coming home. A Saskatoon official says the city has received permission from the province to inter the cremated remains of Howe and his wife, Colleen, at the b...

A venomous snake that was the subject of a hunt in a wooded area east of Toronto has been captured, but a python remains on the loose in Montreal. A spokeswoman for Ajax, Ont., says the copperhead was...

HALIFAX - Experts in privacy and civil rights are raising questions about a police news conference that identified 27 men caught in a Cape Breton prostitution sting, saying the move amounted to unnece...

WINNIPEG - The husband of a woman on trial for concealing the remains of six infants in a storage locker thought his wife was hoarding furniture. “I thought it was her father’s, hoarding f...

GATINEAU, Que. - The Transportation Safety Board says a freight train derailment in northern Ontario was caused by the complete failure of a previously cracked rail. The incident took place on Jan. 13...

OTTAWA - The Opposition Conservatives and the NDP seized on Wednesday’s news of grim second-quarter economic growth as evidence that the Liberal government’s election promises of jobs and ...

OTTAWA - Canada Post and its employees have merely reached a “peace treaty” ahead of the busy holiday shopping season, a business lobby group warned Wednesday, predicting little but long-t...

MONTREAL - Nashville Predators defenceman P.K. Subban admits he’s disappointed at not making the Canadian team for the World Cup of Hockey, but says he had no control over the decision to omit h...

OTTAWA - The veterans affairs minister says the government intends to implement a number of recommendations to combat homelessness among veterans and to do so in what he calls a relatively timely fash...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The RCMP in Newfoundland and Labrador says it is reviewing a report from the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team into the shooting death of Don Dunphy. In a statement Wedne...