Category Archives: Canada

COQUITLAM, B.C. - Shergo Kurdi lifts his shirt to reveal a pale, mottled patchwork of burn scars on his belly and chest - a legacy, he says, of years spent ironing fabric in a Turkish clothing factory...

OTTAWA - The federal treasury is doling out $1.49 billion worth of transit funding among cities in Ontario for track upgrades, new buses and improvements and accessibility upgrades to stations, the pr...

TORONTO - A popular airline says it has stopped offering meal accommodations for the majority of travellers who require special diets for health or religious reasons. Air Transat says passengers flyin...

TORONTO - Two plane loads of Canadian Olympians returned home from Rio to a hero’s welcome, as flag-waving fans clamoured for autographs and cheering family members offered up homecoming hugs. S...

MONTREAL - A jury has convicted Quebec’s 2012 election-night shooter of second-degree murder in the death of a lighting technician. The jurors also convicted Richard Henry Bain of three counts o...

OTTAWA - Even without a Chinese-Canadian free trade deal, the federal government should be deepening its business relationship with the rapidly expanding Asian economy on multiple fronts, says a globa...

Highlights from the news file for Monday, Aug. 22 ___ CANADA BASKING IN OLYMPIC ACHIEVEMENTS: The chef de mission of the Canadian Olympic team believes there was a Pan Am effect at work. Curt Harnett ...

THE PAS, Man. - A forest products company that is the largest employer in The Pas in northern Manitoba says it will shut down in December. Tolko Industries says 332 workers have been notified that the...

OTTAWA - Many mosques and Islamic schools in Canada are placing young people at risk by espousing - or at least not condemning - extremist teachings, a new study says. Co-authors Thomas Quiggin, a for...

MONTREAL - A slander trial is set to begin next month pitting a fiercely secular, feminist author against a private, Muslim school in Montreal she likened to militant Islamic training camps in Afghani...