Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Efforts by the previous Conservative government to promote religious freedom around the world were tainted by the perception of political interference, an internal government evaluation concl...

OTTAWA - Cash rebates and tax incentives are the best way to convince Canadians to buy electric cars as part of an overall government strategy to cut greenhouse gas emissions, federal officials conclu...

EDMONTON - Alberta’s top court has increased the sentence of a man who crashed his SUV onto an Edmonton restaurant patio, killing a young boy. The Alberta Court of Appeal has ruled that Richard ...

MONTREAL - The would-be hero who tried to save a man trapped in a burning tanker truck has been released from hospital but is still suffering from psychological trauma, his boss said Wednesday. Carol ...

Ottawa has overturned a decision that saw an Ontario university professor denied permanent residency in Canada because his son has Down Syndrome. Felipe Montoya had been working at York University as ...

CALGARY - A commonly held belief about the route taken by the first humans to arrive in North America may be turned on its ear after an international study released this week. It is thought that the m...

FREDERICTON - Maureen Noble can’t quite recall exactly how many cars have hit her house - she didn’t start counting until about 25 years ago. “At least six since the early ’90s...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba plans to spend up to $9 million to support the construction of a new marine observatory in the northern community of Churchill. Education Minister Ian Wishart says the University o...

It’s a tale of two summers this year in Canada, with rain - and the lack of it - causing concerns about the state of the country’s crops. In Ontario, officials are forecasting a strong fru...

VICTORIA - An Amnesty International report calling for work to stop on British Columbia’s $8.8 billion Site C hydroelectric dam will not affect construction on the project, says the Crown corpor...