Category Archives: Canada

RIO DE JANEIRO - Divers Roseline Filion and Meaghan Benfeito kept Canada’s medal streak going at the Rio Summer Games with another bronze medal. Filion, of Laval, Que., and Benfeito, of Montreal...

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, Aug. 9 ___ DIVERS SECURE CANADA ANOTHER BRONZE MEDAL: Divers Roseline Filion and Meaghan Benfeito earned Canada yet another bronze medal Tuesday at the Rio S...

CHEMAINUS, B.C. - Const. Clay Wurzinger and his police dog had been methodically searching for hours along an old forestry road on Vancouver Island when Boomer picked up the missing woman’s scen...

GRANBY, Que. - The head of a Quebec zoo says an employee who was attacked by a lion should make a full recovery. Granby Zoo’s Paul Gosselin says the woman in her early 20s had surgery on Monday ...

MONTREAL - Jurors heard the final evidence Tuesday at the first-degree murder trial of the man charged in Quebec’s election-night shooting four years ago and were told they’ll begin delibe...

HALIFAX - Fire crews are desperately holding back an out-of-control wildfire near Kejimkujik National Park, trying to keep it from growing ahead of hotter, windier weather expected to make the task ev...

HALIFAX - Just seven months after Nova Scotia’s government warned of troubling revenue declines, its finance minister has announced the final deficit number has plummeted $87 million lower than ...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador has lost another legal skirmish in its long-running energy feud with Hydro-Quebec. Crown corporation Nalcor Energy said Tuesday it’s translatin...

OTTAWA - Sen. Mike Duffy says the Senate has approved his latest housing expenses. The latest round of quarterly expense reports show Duffy claimed $1,691.59 for living expenses, although there is no ...

OTTAWA - A new course being taught this fall at the University of Ottawa is an indication that attitudes toward animal rights are changing, say activists, a trend that one Liberal MP hopes will pave t...