Category Archives: Canada

EDMONTON - An Edmonton woman is offering a reward for the safe return of her pet iguana. Mary-Ann Holm says Gaylord escaped from her fenced back yard in west Edmonton on Aug. 13 while "basking in the ...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government announced Friday that it will make 600 Canadian troops available for UN peacekeeping operations. Here are five places they could end up. 1) Mali. The dangers are very r...

MONTREAL - Bombardier handed out pink slips Friday to aerospace employees in Montreal as part of its efforts announced in February to trim 7,000 workers over two years. The Montreal-based company decl...

CALGARY - Vancouver-based Teck Resources says it’s “disappointed” with a U.S. District Court ruling ordering it to pay US$8.25 million in legal costs, as part a long-running legal ba...

Highlights from the news file for Friday, Aug. 26 ___ CANADA SAYS IT’S WILLING TO EXPAND PEACEKEEPING DUTIES: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has told the United Nations that Ca...

SAN FRANCISCO - A U.S. court has the authority to hear a trademark lawsuit by grocery chain Trader Joe’s against a man who buys the company’s products and resells them in Vancouver at Pira...

HALIFAX - One of Canada’s largest grocery store chains has withdrawn its appeal of a human rights decision that found a Sobeys employee discriminated against a black customer. In a statement, So...

HALIFAX - A 73-year-old man who says police in Cape Breton subjected him to “public shaming” has lost his initial bid to challenge a charge that he sought sexual services from an undercove...

MONTREAL - A coalition of business groups and large unions came out together in defence of TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline project Friday and said it will spur economic development and job cr...

VANCOUVER - Every time the elevator doors open at Wolfram Gottschalk’s care home and he sees his wife of 62 years, the couple’s granddaughter says he always reacts the same way. The 83-yea...