Category Archives: Canada

CALGARY - The increasingly divisive debate over pipelines, with the economic benefits and environmental concerns they carry, has been selected as The Canadian Press business story of the year. In an a...

PLYMPTON, N.S. - Massive numbers of dead starfish, clams, lobsters and mussels have washed up on a western Nova Scotia beach, compounding the mysterious deaths of tens of thousands of h...

HALIFAX - Like any regular federal politician, former Conservative cabinet minister Rob Moore is a busy man these days. Based in Saint John, N.B., he often travels to Ottawa to att...

Five stories in the news for Wednesday, Dec. 28 --- STILL NO SIGN OF MISSING HIKERS ON B.C. MOUNTAIN A search will resume at first light for two hikers missing since Monday on B.C.’s Cypress Mou...

TORONTO - Here is a list of Canada’s biggest weather stories of the year as compiled by the country’s top meteorologists. 1. Wildfire in Fort McMurray, Alta. 2. Super El Nino cancels winte...

TORONTO - The “beast” of a wildfire that charred Fort McMurray, Alta., was named Canada’s biggest weather story of the year in an annual list compiled by the country’...

OTTAWA - Some 33 per cent of Canadians who participated in a recent poll conducted by the Canadian Automobile Association admit they have texted while stopped at a red light in the last month. That...

VANCOUVER - North Shore Rescue says the search for two men who have gone missing while snowshoeing near Cypress Mountain is particularly challenging because crews don’t know what ...

OTTAWA - Global Affairs Canada is confirming that a 10-year-old girl who died Christmas Eve after falling ill aboard a transatlantic Air Canada flight was Canadian. The Toronto-to-London flight d...

TORONTO - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canadian actors Dan Aykroyd and William Shatner are some of the scores of people paying tribute to the late Carrie Fisher, best known for her role as Princess ...