Category Archives: Canada

FREDERICTON - The University of New Brunswick is reinstating women’s varsity hockey following a 10-year absence and a lengthy battle over human rights. “I’m very pleased an...

BURGEO, N.L. - Linda Vatcher made the trip home to Newfoundland’s south coast every year, often offering up a hug and a smile to many people she ran into. “She was just an infect...

OTTAWA - The federal government pulled billions of dollars off the negotiating table Monday after failing to reach a long-term health-care funding agreement with frustrated provincial a...

Four stories in the news for Monday, Dec. 19 --- FEDS AND PROVINCES DICKER OVER HEALTH CARE FUNDING Canada’s finance and health ministers meet today to try to reach an agreement on federal fundi...

OTTAWA - The federal government is to sit down Monday with the provinces for some tough negotiations on the future of health-care funding in Canada. Shortly before a Sunday dinner meeting wi...

Calgary police have had more officer-involved shootings than any other city in Canada in 2016. Calgary police Chief Roger Chaffin believes there is something wrong and has called for an independent pr...

OTTAWA - The federal government is seeking a way to regulate underwater shipping noise as part of its plan to protect an endangered group of killer whales from increased oil tanker traf...

A Canadian Forces probe of cadet dress-code pamphlets has uncovered eight containing “unacceptable language,” months after controversy over a similar recruitment leaflet that ...

CALGARY - Grant Heffernan thinks about his young brother every day but more so each time he hears there’s been another shooting by police in Calgary. “We were thinking that ...

OTTAWA - The federal government has reached a tentative contract with a public sector union in a deal that involves 68,000 public servants. The Public Service Alliance of Canada says it ...