Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - A brutal battle for the throne of a baboon troop at the Toronto Zoo that erupted when the matriarch died became so vicious that staff intervened with hormone treatments to take “a litt...

OTTAWA - A coalition of Canadian Muslim organizations is calling for all levels of government to combat Islamophobia in the wake of the shootings at a Quebec mosque. Among other things, the group...

QUEBEC - The federal response to Bombardier’s request for financial assistance is yet another sign of Ottawa giving short shrift to Quebec, Parti Quebecois Leader Jean-Francois Lisee said Wednes...

HALIFAX - African Nova Scotians continue to grapple with systemic racism in a province that has a long history of discrimination, a new report says. A preliminary report from the restorative inquiry i...

MONTREAL - The federal government all but dared any country to launch a trade challenge over its aid to Bombardier, and Brazil responded in short order Wednesday, accusing Ottawa of violating its comm...

OTTAWA - For the first time in almost three generations, Manitobans can say their province has grown faster than the national average. Census data released Wednesday shows that Manitoba’s popula...

OTTAWA - Quick: which region of Canada came out on top as the country’s fastest growing province or territory in the 2016 census? Step right up, Nunavut: the remote northern territory boasted a ...

TORONTO - After Debbie Clarke’s first child had reached the “terrible twos,” she and her husband decided their family of three was big enough - adding a sibling would be just too muc...

TORONTO - Julien Simon and his wife were living happily in their condo in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby when life intervened last year in the form of a baby on the way. The couple - he’s an In...

REGINA - At the peak of the last oil boom, there were so many people living in the southeastern Saskatchewan city of Estevan that there was nowhere to stay. “We had people sleeping in trailers -...