Category Archives: Canada

WINNIPEG - The Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg has taken in a second orphaned polar bear cub that was seen wandering alone in the Churchill area. Another orphan was flown to the zoo’s polar bea...

OTTAWA - Federal Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr has moved to revive the stalled review of TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline by appointing three new, bilingual, temporary members to th...

OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau admitted Monday that he gets lobbied on government business when he’s the featured draw at Liberal party fundraisers. But the prime minister insisted he doesn&#...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the deaths of two Canadian hostages in the Philippines was a low point for him in the last year. The militant group Abu Sayyaf killed Robert Hall and J...

HALIFAX - Police officers are donning hazmat suits as they respond to Halifax crime scenes where deadly opioids are suspected, in what’s described as an early sign of fentanyl’s&...

HALIFAX - An apparent debate over the cost of Nova Scotia’s annual Christmas tree gift to Boston has made it to the front page of one of the most-read papers in the United States. The tale of th...

HALIFAX - The certification of a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of passengers aboard an Air Canada jet that crashed at the Halifax airport in 2015 was challenged in court Monday by federal lawye...

WINNIPEG - The chief of an isolated reserve struggled to describe his emotions Monday after the federal government said it would spend up to an additional $10 million to make sure an all-weather ...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador’s finance minister says she has faced body shaming, death threats and suggestions that she kill herself, becoming the latest woman in Canadian ...

HALIFAX - A winter storm system is expected to blanket much of Atlantic Canada with more than 15 centimetres of snow today, leading to school closures and some travel delays at the region’s airp...