Category Archives: Canada

NEW YORK - Every province could soon have either a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system, Catherine McKenna signalled Wednesday as the environment minister prepares a long-awaited plan that promises to...

HALIFAX - A web site featuring intimate images of women from one Nova Scotia region, apparently posted without their consent, has been taken down amid an RCMP investigation. Cpl. Jennifer Clarke said ...

WAINWRIGHT, Alta. - A Canadian Army officer in Alberta faces 22 criminal charges including sexual assault with a weapon. Capt. Malcolm Grace, who is 45, is to appear in Wainwright provincial court on ...

PORTLAND, Maine - The United States and Canada have brokered a deal to share what’s left of the dwindling North American cod fishing business in the Atlantic next year. Both countries fish for c...

LONDON, Ont. - A southwestern Ontario couple who kept their 10-year-old nephew locked in a squalid bedroom for two years were sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in jail plus two years probation. The 45-...

OTTAWA - Western military intervention may have prevented a “short-term calamity” in Iraq, but it is only the start of a long effort to bring peace and stability to the country, says Canad...

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...