Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - In spite of relentless pressure to help Syrians flee the perils of civil war, Canada’s former Conservative government twice rejected a proposal last year to make it easier for Canadians...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s judiciary on Sunday confirmed the brief detention of a member of Iran’s negotiation team with world powers on suspicion of “infiltration,” the official IR...

OTTAWA - Veterans Affairs officials are ready to recommend that the federal government give rental subsidies to veterans who are homeless or nearly so in order to combat what they describe as an unacc...

OTTAWA - A by-the-numbers look at the state of homelessness among Canadian military veterans: 2,250: Estimated number of veterans who use shelters annually. 639: Homeless veterans registered in Vetera...

JACUMBA, United States - An American border guard steps out of his vehicle onto a dusty desert road, seeking to chat with the strangers he sees milling about the mesquite bushes a few metres from Mexi...

BOSTON - Energy, the environment, and climate change are expected to be among the key topics when the New England governors and Eastern Canadian premiers gather Monday in Boston. Massachusetts Governo...

CALGARY - It’s from one self-declared lover of baby panda snuggles to another. Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi has written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asking for Ottawa’s help in defrayin...

MONTREAL - The National Energy Board’s review of the Energy East Pipeline heads to hostile territory Monday when it resumes in Montreal, where the city’s mayor has called for the process t...

HALIFAX - Canada trails the pack when it comes to mental health funding levels among comparable industrially developed nations – but advocates say a promise from the federal government to improv...

Montreal businessman Corey Shapiro bought some flakes of gold one night to garnish his sushi for extra flavour - and then he had an idea. Instead of eating the gold, Shapiro thought, why not infuse it...