Category Archives: Canada

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - A lockdown was put in place Wednesday at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary following what Corrections Canada was calling “a major disturbance” and wh...

LONDON, Ont. - Ontario Provincial Police say the residents of a home engulfed in flames on a southern Ontario First Nation remain unaccounted for. Emergency crews were called to the home on the Oneida...

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Border officials say a man from Abbotsford, B.C., has been fined after he tried to smuggle six baby lizards into Canada in his shirt. Canada Border Services Agency says in a re...

EDMONTON - The grand chief of Treaty Six First Nations says he is discouraged that an Edmonton city councillor has concerns about naming streets with indigenous words that some people may fi...

EDMONTON - The chief of staff to Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is moving on. Brian Topp has announced he is leaving his post and will return to Ontario. He has accepted a fellowship with the Publ...

Calgary-based Athabasca Oil Corp. (TSX:ATH) has struck a deal to buy the northern Alberta oilsands assets of Norwegian oil giant Statoil ASA for up to $832 million. The surprise sale agreeme...

TORONTO - Medically sanctioned opioid use has dropped by almost 14 per cent since national guidelines for prescribing the drugs were introduced in 2010, yet the rate of&n...

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Dec. 14 DOCUMENTS SHOW OTTAWA WATCHED U.S. CAMPAIGN WARILY: Canadian diplomats in Washington warned Ottawa earlier this year that a Donald Trump presi...

TORONTO - Tom Green remembers watching Alan Thicke’s homegrown talk show as a kid in Pembroke, Ont., in the early 1980s. Green was only about seven but was entranced with Thicke’s bar...

HALIFAX - A wealthy Halifax couple who took their quest for an oceanfront swimming pool all the way to Nova Scotia’s highest court have lost. John and Esther Ghosn built a mansion on the Northwe...