Category Archives: Canada

RICHMOND, B.C. - The British Columbia government is maintaining a freeze on its carbon tax and refusing to budge on a timeline to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in a new climate plan that environment...

CALGARY - Federal Immigration Minister John McCallum expects a report next month on a revamp to the temporary foreign worker program. McCallum says the House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Res...

Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard has shuffled his cabinet following the resignation of his transport minister Friday afternoon. Laurent Lessard will replace Jacques Daoust as transport minister, whil...

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. - Police in the Delaware resort of Rehoboth Beach say a Canadian man has been charged for allowing his daughter to allegedly lure a seagull to a hole in the sand, where she killed...

MONTREAL - Raymond Brisebois’s 16-year-old daughter was struck and killed by a train in 2012 but he was never able to tell her one last time he loved her because he kept putting off the phone ca...

VANCOUVER - The transformation of Vancouver’s Chinatown, fuelled by a changing population, crisis of affordability and ripe potential for new development, has left some locals calling it either ...

No winning ticket was sold for the $34.3 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. The jackpot for the next draw on Aug. 26 will grow to approximately $46 million. The Canadian Press

KINGSTON, Ont. - On Saturday, the eastern Ontario city of Kingston was Hip-town. Hordes of music fans gathered in the hometown of the Tragically Hip for the final stop of their “Man Machine Poem...

SAO PAOLO, Brazil - Canada’s men’s 4×100-metre relay team has claimed the bronze medal at the Rio Olympics. It’s the third medal of the Games for Canadian sprinter Andre De Gras...

BATTLEFORD, Sask. - A judge has granted bail to a Saskatchewan farmer charged with the shooting death of an aboriginal man on his property. The decision, which was released as the court was closing Fr...