Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - All future National Energy Board hearings into the Energy East pipeline project will be suspended until the board rules on motions demanding two panel members resign, the federal agency ann...

MONTREAL - Relatives of a Montreal-based university professor being held in an Iranian jail fear for her life as her condition has deteriorated to the point she can hardly walk or talk. Homa Hoodfar, ...

EDMONTON - Alberta’s energy minister says the violent disruptions at the Energy East pipeline hearings in Quebec are disconcerting and are hindering the debate. But Marg McCuaig-Boyd said Albert...

OTTAWA - Canada Post and its largest union have reached a tentative settlement, averting the prospect of job action this week at the postal service. The tentative agreements must still be ratified by ...

WINNIPEG - Ontario’s chief forensic pathologist says there’s no way to determine the cause of death for six infants whose remains were found in a storage locker, but the babies were certai...

NORWAY HOUSE, Man. - When Ron Evans was 17, he worked as a driver shuttling staff home after their shifts at the Norway House Indian Hospital in northern Manitoba. He’s now racking his brain try...

OTTAWA - The military’s top brass says progress has been made in the war on sexual misconduct in the ranks, as evidenced by an increase in the number of cases being reported. But they admit that...

CALGARY - The head of an oilfield services lobby group says if Ottawa won’t give the industry money to clean up dormant oilwells, a loan would work just as well. Mark Salkeld, CEO of the Petrole...

TORONTO - Canada’s insatiable appetite for the Tragically Hip sent the rock band’s entire discography back onto the Billboard charts last week. All 17 Hip albums, ranging from their 1987 d...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is affirming its participation in a national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. The province says in a release that an order in council ha...