Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - The agency charged with overseeing Ontario’s physicians issued a scathing reprimand to a former family doctor who it says lured a patient into his office after hours “under the p...

OTTAWA - A special all-party Commons committee is recommending a new proportional voting system, along with a national referendum to gauge public support for changing the way Canadians vote. Some...

MONTREAL - The decision by international food giant Mondelez to close a cookie and cracker factory in Montreal by 2017 is final, a company spokeswoman said Thursday. As a result, 454 jobs will be...

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Dec. 1 --- COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS PROPORTIONAL VOTING SYSTEM: A special all-party committee is recommending that the Trudeau government design a new prop...

TORONTO - Following an uproar from consumers, the company that runs the Air Miles loyalty points program says it is cancelling plans that would have seen collectors lose any miles not used within five...

VICTORIA - Premier Christy Clark says British Columbia will create an environmental fund with money that it expects to receive as part of a deal to support Kinder Morgan’s pipeline expansio...

OTTAWA - Canada wants to work with the United States to face the “challenge” posed by Russia, Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion said Thursday. Dion steered clear of weighing in direct...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A Newfoundland motorist was stunned Thursday when a heavy piece of metal flew off a nearby truck and into her windshield. The large piece of metal, estimated to weigh mor...

SAN FRANCISCO - Cirque du Soleil “Luzia” has cancelled its San Francisco shows through Friday and hired psychologists to counsel cast and crew members in the wake of an accident that kille...

HALIFAX - Tens of thousands of dead herring keep washing ashore along Nova Scotia’s western coastline, a mystery for biologists trying to figure out what is killing the small, silvery ...