Category Archives: Canada

Researchers have confirmed the widespread release of ancient carbon from melting Arctic permafrost in what could be the lit fuse on a climate-change bomb. A paper published this week in Nature Geoscie...

TORONTO - Royal Bank CEO David McKay says the lender is “closely monitoring” the real estate markets in Vancouver and Toronto, where home prices have been climbing at a breakneck pace. ...

COQUITLAM, B.C. - The Canadian Press erroneously reported on Aug. 16 that British Columbia has brought in a tax on homebuyers in Metro Vancouver who are non-residents of the province. In fact, the tax...

A class-action lawsuit launched by former inmates of a London, Ont., detention centre over the conditions of the facility has been given the green light to proceed. Superior Court Justice A. Duncan Gr...

Halifax police say they have opened a murder investigation after a body was found in a stolen car in a church cemetery. RCMP say officers received a report of the missing vehicle from North Preston ju...

OTTAWA - Fixing the problems with the federal government’s new payroll system will cost more than $25 million, although the total won’t be known for weeks, a top official at Public Works a...

CALGARY - A court appearance for a man charged in the deaths of a Calgary woman and her five-year-old daughter has been put over for two weeks. Edward Downey, who faces two counts of first-degree murd...

TRURO, N.S. - Bedtime for Stacey Taylor’s 11-year-old son Kai hasn’t been the same since his cat Marley went missing - one of more than 18 pets that have mysteriously disappeared from Trur...

BURLINGTON, Vt. - A Quebec man arrested while dragging a sled loaded with more than 82 kilograms of prescription pills into the United States has been sentenced to a year in prison. Cedrik Bourgault-M...

STONEWALL, Man. - Former television game show host and animal rights advocate Bob Barker is providing $50,000 to a Manitoba couple who want to build the province’s first black bear cub rehabilit...