Category Archives: Canada

LONGUEUIL, Que. - A Quebec man who pleaded guilty to attacking a female jogger at a popular provincial park near Montreal last September has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years behind ba...

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Jan. 4 AFGHAN VETERAN AMONG 4 DEAD AT N.S. HOME: An Afghanistan war veteran and his wife, mother and 10-year-old daughter have been found shot to...

NANAIMO, B.C. - An embattled mayor on Vancouver Island is being taken to court by his own city over allegations he leaked confidential information to an employee, while at the same time a group o...

MONTREAL - More than 37,000 Hydro-Quebec customers were still without electricity as of Wednesday afternoon due to freezing rain that caused ice-covered branches to snap and f...

VANCOUVER - Free salt has become a hot commodity in Vancouver as some residents clamour for more than their fair share of a limited supply intended to keep sidewalks safe during an unus...

OTTAWA - It was a construction crew working on a hospital expansion that first came across human remains in 2010 near the pastoral French town of Vendin-le-Vieil - remains that would later prove ...

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. has been fined $10,000 by Alberta’s professional engineering society - the maximum allowed - following an investigation into an accident at an oilsands site ...

EDMONTON - A judge is to deliver sentencing later this month - anywhere from time served to life in prison - for a man convicted of killing two Alberta seniors who disappeared on a camping t...

TORONTO - Relocating a nuclear-waste bunker from its currently proposed site on Lake Huron would cost billions of dollars, take decades to execute, and increase health and environmental risks, accordi...

MONTREAL - Canada needs to reduce the number of immigrants and refugees it accepts in order to better integrate them, Conservative leadership hopeful Steven Blaney said Wednesday. The Quebec MP&n...