Category Archives: Canada

VANCOUVER - It took 100-year-old Indian runner Man Kaur almost a minute and a half to complete the 100-metre race, but she never broke her stride. And when she crossed the finish line Monday at the Am...

Highlights from the news file for Monday, Aug. 29 ___ TRUDEAU EMBARKS ON OFFICIAL TRIP TO CHINA: More than four decades after his father first began paving the way in the 1970s, Prime Minister Justin ...

TORONTO - It’s been known for years that taking folic acid before and during pregnancy can prevent neural tube defects like spina bifida in newborns. But research suggests the B vitamin also app...

BOSTON - The New England governors and Eastern Canadian premiers praised their working relationship Monday as they wrapped up an annual meeting in Boston that they described as a continuation of talks...

MONTREAL - A Quebec mother says she was shocked that two Grade 3 teachers were wearing aboriginal headdresses and handing them out to students on the first day of classes Monday. Jennifer Dorner said ...

CALGARY - Sheldon Kennedy says being sexually abused for years by his junior hockey coach Graham James turned him from a “goofy, slightly mixed-up kid” who dreamed of the future into littl...

EDMONTON - A potential candidate for the leadership of Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives says rules adopted by the party should end the bid by Calgary MP Jason Kenney to merge the provinceR...

SASKATOON - A Saskatchewan couple has two boys, four car seats and a nanny but they’re being asked by the Canada Revenue Agency to prove that their children exist - again. Devin Dubois and his w...

MONTREAL - Valeant Pharmaceuticals is being sued by New York health benefit funds providers that allege the embattled Canadian drug manufacturer overcharged for medications in contravention of rackete...

OTTAWA - A proportional voting system may have spared western Canada the imposition of the national energy program, Ed Broadbent suggested Monday. The former NDP leader said the infamous program, whic...