Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - By his count, Carlos Beals estimates he’s been stopped by police at least a dozen times, always walking away without an arrest and for reasons that to him seemed flimsy at best. B...

EDMONTON - Alberta’s plan to restore a dwindling caribou herd by penning off a large tract of forest for pregnant cows would only produce “naive” calves that wouldn’t survive o...

HALIFAX - More people are immigrating to Atlantic Canada than ever before, but many do not stay, a new report says. The Atlantic Provinces Economic Council report released Thursday said a re...

CALGARY - Family members of a couple and their grandson who disappeared two years ago say they are bracing themselves as a suspect’s murder trial is set to begin.  Douglas Ga...

Some law enforcement officials say the advertising website Backpage.com should shut down its “adult” sections in Canada, following allegations in the U.S. that the...

TORONTO - A $2 million donation to TVO is being hailed as a boost for the financially struggling media industry, but experts say it’s unlikely to spur similar investments because the countryR...

TORONTO - Researchers checking for added sugar on the ingredients lists of packaged foods and beverages expected to find it in candy products, but they didn’t predict&nb...

TORONTO - Amazon has apologized to India’s foreign minister for selling doormats depicting the Indian flag on the online shopping giant’s Canadian website. The head of the retailer in Indi...

OTTAWA - The federal government failed its employees when it didn’t properly heed warning signs about its problem-plagued Phoenix pay system before rolling it out almost a year ago, Prime Minist...

FREDERICTON - Two garbagemen are being hailed for rescuing a frozen, urine-soaked kitten from a rural snowbank. Leland Nason and a co-workers were collecting trash in Minto, N.B., on Tuesday when...