Category Archives: Canada

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Aug. 24 ___ EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY REDUCES TOWNS TO RUBBLE: Rescue crews using bulldozers and their bare hands raced to dig out survivors from a strong earthq...

TORONTO - The Canadian-Italian community is mobilizing to help after a deadly earthquake in central Italy killed at least 247 people and left thousands homeless on Wednesday The 6.2-magnitude quake st...

OTTAWA - The RCMP says its female members can wear a hijab if they choose. Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale’s office says the national police force respects people of all cultural and religi...

OTTAWA - Canadian-trained Kurdish forces in Iraq are expected to watch the upcoming fight for the city of Mosul from the sidelines, underlying the ethnic and religious divisions that persist within th...

TORONTO - For years - decades, actually - Noreen Smith couldn’t perform the simple actions of everyday living that most of us take for granted: drinking a cup of coffee; writing her name; stylin...

CALGARY - The National Energy Board says it is accepting written comments on motions calling for two of three people to step down from a panel reviewing the Energy East Pipeline over perceptions of bi...

The mayor of an Ontario border city that was unwittingly visited by 1,500 wayward Americans over the weekend said he’d like them to come back someday - but this time with money, clothes and pass...

OTTAWA - Last spring, school boards grappled with the practical issues that came with welcoming thousands of new Syrian students: finding them desks, pencils, books. But as they gear up for this schoo...

OTTAWA - It appears contract talks at Canada Post have stalled as a strike mandate for more than 51,000 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers is set to expire. The postal agency’s bigg...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is urging patience as her government grapples with a budget deficit projected to hit almost $11 billion this year While the situation is bad, it would have bee...