Category Archives: Canada

REGINA - A woman who has won the largest lottery prize ever in Saskatchewan knew something was up the morning she went to check her ticket. Mary Wernicke of Neville says she had “a feeling”...

EDMONTON - Some of the last evacuees from the Fort McMurray wildfire are being allowed to return home after Alberta’s top health officer approved the cleanup of their neighbourhoods. “I am...

OTTAWA - First Nations leaders expressed dismay Thursday that two communities in northern Ontario were given less than a week’s notice from Health Canada that their federally run nursing station...

NORWAY HOUSE, Man. - Indigenous leaders say two men from a northern Manitoba First Nation have DNA evidence showing they were switched at birth - the second such alleged mix-up in the mid-1970s at the...

Three people died Thursday in an crossbow incident at a home east of Toronto. The following is a list of other crossbow incidents in Canada: - In December 2010, 24-year-old Zhou Fang shot his father i...

OTTAWA - China’s ambassador to Canada says he hopes a simmering trade dispute over Canadian canola exports won’t become an even bigger problem with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau set to vis...

HALIFAX - A group representing 175 Nova Scotia fishermen appeared in court Thursday in a bid to stop a plan to test giant electric turbines in the Bay of Fundy - an ambitious project that has been on ...

OTTAWA - Former prime minister Stephen Harper has been awarded one of Ukraine’s highest honours. Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko granted the Order of Liberty to Harper to mark the 25th anni...

QUEBEC - The former chief of staff to a cabinet minister who has just resigned contradicted his ex-boss Thursday at a special legislature hearing into the controversial purchase of hardware firm Rona ...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s health minister says the lack of health information included in a review of a jailhouse death shows the province’s oversight system is both “ad hoc” and...