Category Archives: Canada

RIO DE JANEIRO - It didn’t take long for Canada to match its track and field medal total from the London Olympics. Brianne Theisen-Eaton put a tough first day of the heptathlon behind her and fo...

TORONTO - There is one winning ticket for the $60 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw, and it was purchased somewhere in the Prairie provinces. Nineteen of the 42 MaxMillions prizes...

MONTREAL - There will be a third day of deliberations in the trial of the man charged in Quebec’s 2012 election-night shooting, as the jury concluded its work without reaching a verdict on Sunda...

TORONTO - Listeners told executives at CBC Radio they weren’t so keen on the new “Q” - and so Shad has been given the boot, with his last show airing Tuesday. After not quite 16 mont...

HALIFAX - The society representing Nova Scotia’s lawyers says it won’t take its fight against accreditation for graduates of Trinity Western University law school to the Supreme Court of C...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals have announced details of a long-promised review to examine environmental assessments for projects from pipelines to new mines. Environment Minister Catherine McKenna sai...

TORONTO - A judge has ruled that a University of Toronto professor was falsely imprisoned at a Canadian Tire, but rejected claims that staff had threatened him and caused him to injure himself after l...

TORONTO: aN arbitrator has accepted Canada Post’s proposal for a new collective agreement with its postmasters and assistants in rural offices across the country. Key changes under the agreement...

OTTAWA - Ontario’s auto sector absorbed a far greater economic wallop during the financial crisis than the damage low oil prices have inflicted on Alberta, says an internal federal analysis. The...

WINNIPEG - The wife of a man who died after suffering an epileptic seizure while in custody at the Winnipeg Remand Centre says facility staff denied her husband his epilepsy medication in the days lea...