Category Archives: Canada

VANCOUVER - Overdose deaths in British Columbia linked to illicit drug use continue to climb in 2016, with far more incidents being linked to the dangerous opioid fentanyl. While deaths across the pro...

GANDER, N.L. - All passengers and crew are safe as a mechanical issue forced a British Airways jet flying from Paris to Newark to land at an airport in central Newfoundland today. Gander International...

MONCTON, N.B. - The federal and New Brunswick governments have announced an agreement to spend more than $176 million on 51 infrastructure projects. According to a release, the federal government will...

CALGARY - A former flight attendant suing WestJet says a review into the airline’s workplace harassment policies validates her view that the company is failing to protect its employees. The Calg...

TORONTO - Few Canadian television events qualify as a momentous occasion for the nation, but Saturday’s Tragically Hip concert promises to be special. It seems like much of the country will be t...

TORONTO - The director of Canada’s anti-money laundering watchdog says the agency is studying how vulnerable certain emerging technologies, such as those being pioneered by so-called fintech sta...

SELKIRK, Man. - A Manitoba farmer has harvested a “yes” to a marriage proposal he plowed into a field. John Yokimas took his girlfriend, Sally Hnatiuk, for a plane ride. While airborne the...

SASKATOON - The family of hockey great Gordie Howe wants to return Mr. Hockey to his home. A city official says the family has requested that the cremated remains of Howe and his wife Colleen be inter...

OTTAWA - The Conservatives are questioning the impartiality of a lawyer named to the panel reviewing the environmental assessment process, saying the more than $33,000 he has donated to the Liberals, ...

YELLOWKNIFE - A study of lakes near one of Canada’s most contaminated industrial sites suggests the water immediately around Yellowknife’s Giant Mine won’t return to its natural stat...