Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - George MacDonald has seen it play out generation after generation, the timeworn ritual of watching friends and family pick up stakes and head west. The councillor for Glace Bay, a hardscrabb...

TORONTO - After he graduated in 2011, mechanical engineer David Momoh did what countless others in Ontario had done before him: he looked west, to the land of oil and opportunity. Then boom turned to ...

OTTAWA - Highlights from Wednesday’s first release of data - focused on population and dwellings - from the 2016 census: - The census counted 35,151,728 people on May 10, 2016, an increase of 1....

OTTAWA - Colin Basran is having growing pains. In some ways a victim of his own success, the mayor of Kelowna has been struggling in recent years to rein in his city as it slowly spreads across the B....

CARBONEAR, N.L. - The house where a five-year-old Newfoundland girl was found after allegedly being killed by her father has been torn down. About a dozen people gathered Wednesday morning as wre...

HALIFAX - Tired of waiting for the arrival of a privately-sponsored Syrian family, a Halifax woman decided to travel to Jordan to meet them herself. Stephanie Gillis says it’s been mor...

LAKE LOUISE, Alta. - The Trans-Canada Highway has reopened after an avalanche rolled across the road in southeastern British Columbia. The slide happened on Mount Stephen in Yoho National Park ea...

HALIFAX - A vote on the latest contract offer for Nova Scotia teachers has been postponed by a day due to bad weather. The Nova Scotia Teachers Union says in a statement that the vote will be held onl...

Four stories in the news for Wednesday, Feb. 8 --- BOMBARDIER WELCOMES FEDERAL MONEY Bombardier CEO Alain Bellemare says he welcomes federal support even though his company did not get the one-bi...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada will release the first batch of data today from the 2016 census. This batch — the first of seven to be released during the year — will focus on population a...