Category Archives: Canada

QUEBEC - A Quebec member of the legislature who was accused of sexual assault won’t be automatically allowed to return to the Liberal caucus even though he isn’t facing char...

EDMONTON - Canada’s food safety watchdog says it won’t begin tests to find the source of a bovine tuberculosis outbreak until the fall. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency wants to fo...

MONTREAL - Law students from across Canada will join forces on Saturday to study ways to help asylum seekers in light of U.S. President Donald Trump’s order temporarily suspe...

CALGARY - A vote Friday by the U.S. House of Representatives to axe new limits on methane emissions from drilling threatens to harm the competitiveness of Canada’s energ...

ISLAMORADA, Fla. - The family of Toronto filmmaker Rob Stewart says his body was “found peacefully in the ocean” Friday after he disappeared this week while diving off the coast of Fl...

OTTAWA - A leaden blanket of despair stifled Parliament Hill this week, as politicians strained to come to terms with the Quebec City mosque shooting and the confusing Donald Trump ban on travellers f...

VANCOUVER - Mahdi Ebrahimi Kahou was awarded a full scholarship last year to complete his PhD in economics at the University of Minnesota, a top-five U.S. school in his field. But last Friday, the Ira...

Highlights from the news file for Friday, Feb. 3 --- CANADA PUT OFF REQUEST TO LEAD MALI MISSION BECAUSE OF TRUMP: Canada lost out on the opportunity to pick the commanding officer for a Uni...

WINNIPEG - A Manitoba man who faces a medical bill of almost $120,000 for emergency surgery in the United States may be getting some help from the provincial government. Health Minister Kelv...

CRANBROOK, B.C. - A B.C. Supreme Court judge found two people guilty Friday of taking a girl into the United States for a sexual purpose. Justice Paul Pearlman found that former co...