Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Former prime minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government discussed free trade with China, but chose instead to focus its energy on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Canada’s...

OTTAWA - The federal government has released new numbers about shelter usage in Canada that show fewer people are staying in shelters, but those stays are getting longer. The study provides details fo...

OTTAWA - Fewer beds remain empty each night in Canada’s emergency homeless shelters as users stay days, sometimes weeks, longer than they did a decade ago, even as their overall numbers decline....

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A once-thriving caribou herd in Labrador that exceeded 800,000 animals in the 1990s is on the verge of collapse, with fewer than 9,000 remaining, biologists say. The Newfoundl...

BRUDERHEIM, Alta. - It’s meant to cut down on teenage mischief after dark, but some residents and young people in an Edmonton-area town question whether a new kid curfew will make much differenc...

VANCOUVER - Many of the immigrant support groups that leapt into overdrive less than a year ago to welcome the first influx of Syrian refugee families say the intensity of that experience has helped l...

EDMONTON - Alberta has promised to increase environmental monitoring of the in-situ oilsands industry following research that shows such plants can release contaminants into the land and water. “...

CALGARY - Canada’s mortgage insurance agency is reporting a 52 per cent increase in the number of insured home loans in arrears in Alberta, as low oil prices weaken the provincial economy. Canad...

Toronto FC says a sexually explicit sign posted by fans at BMO Field during the team’s 1-0 loss to the Montreal Impact on Saturday is “an embarrassment” to the club and its supporter...

WINNIPEG - A pathologist who examined the remains of six infants found in a Winnipeg storage locker says some were so decomposed, they were just bones. But Raymond Rivera told court most appeared to b...