Category Archives: Canada

CALGARY - RCMP have charged a Calgary man with importing a dangerous synthetic drug that can be 100 times more powerful than deadly fentanyl. Canada Border Services Agency staff seized a package conta...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A judge has ordered major renovations be done to a lakeside property near Kamloops, B.C., that neighbours describe as a “monstrosity” and an “abomination.” B.C...

CALGARY - Security is expected to be tight when the secretary general of the United Nations speaks in Calgary Friday night. Ban Ki-moon is expected to meet with Alberta government officials in the aft...

HALIFAX - Canada’s only fully operational submarine returned to its Halifax port Tuesday after completing a voyage to Scandinavian waters on its second attempt. HMCS Windsor spent about 53 days ...

VANCOUVER - Two old arrows from Africa will be looked at by a curator at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia to see if they might be added to its archives after the interv...

TORONTO - The company that owns the Toronto Star said Tuesday it is laying off more than 50 people, mostly from its newsroom and tablet edition, amid increasing pressure from declining print advertisi...

Six stories in the news today from The Canadian Press: --- WORK TO CONTINUE ON SITE C DAM An Amnesty International report calling for work to stop on British Columbia’s $8.8 billion Site C hydro...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Divers Roseline Filion and Meaghan Benfeito kept Canada’s medal streak going at the Rio Summer Games with another bronze medal. Filion, of Laval, Que., and Benfeito, of Montreal...

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, Aug. 9 ___ DIVERS SECURE CANADA ANOTHER BRONZE MEDAL: Divers Roseline Filion and Meaghan Benfeito earned Canada yet another bronze medal Tuesday at the Rio S...

CHEMAINUS, B.C. - Const. Clay Wurzinger and his police dog had been methodically searching for hours along an old forestry road on Vancouver Island when Boomer picked up the missing woman’s scen...