Category Archives: Canada

YARMOUTH, N.S. - The high-speed ferry that travels between Nova Scotia and Maine was diverted from its route today to help a fishing boat that was taking on water. Bay Ferries says the CAT received a ...

JOLIETTE, Que. - Citing an acute viral infection, Veronique Hivon dropped out of the Parti Quebecois leadership race Friday. Hivon suspended her campaign last week due to labyrinthitis, which is an in...

VANCOUVER - Three municipalities in British Columbia want a stake in any tax revenue that the federal government collects from the legalization of marijuana. Nelson, Duncan and Prince George put forwa...

HALIFAX - Dozens of boot prints are burned into a boardwalk, vivid black scars that form part of a new memorial honouring tens of thousands of soldiers who left from the port of Halifax to fight in th...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The St. John’s Telegram - which calls itself the People’s Paper - used its front page Friday to blast what it says is “a huge lack of respect” for fema...

OTTAWA - With the clock ticking toward potential job action at Canada Post, lawyer and author William Kaplan was appointed Friday to seek an end to the months-long labour dispute at the Crown agency. ...

WINNIPEG - For years, people in the tiny northern Manitoba community of Norway House Cree Nation gossiped and whispered about why David Tait Jr. and Leon Swanson didn’t look much like their pare...

OTTAWA - The federal government ran a deficit of $1.0 billion for the first quarter of its fiscal year, down from a surplus of $5.0 billion in the same period last year though “broadly consisten...

MCADAM, N.B. - The cause of more than 100 earthquakes that shook homes and rattled nerves in a New Brunswick village earlier this year may remain a mystery, says a seismologist. Stephen Halchuk at Ear...

SYDNEY, N.S. - Dave Julian says serial arson charges laid against two volunteer firefighters he worked alongside in rural Cape Breton came as a shock - but it turns out the cases aren’t as rare ...