Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett says she was personally embarrassed by the handling of a piece of legislation designed to change sex-based rules in the Indian ...

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Nov. 30 --- NOTLEY TO HEAD TO B.C. TO SELL PIPELINE MERITS: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley will head to B.C. next week to promote Kinder Morgan’s...

HALIFAX - A look at the history of Africville in Halifax: 1848: The first black settlers buy land in Africville, establishing the community as a home for African-Nova Scotians. 1849: Residents build A...

WASHINGTON - A vocal critic of the North American Free Trade Agreement will be in charge of the U.S. commerce portfolio, with the nomination Wednesday of Wilbur Ross, a billionaire investor who&n...

TORONTO - A Toronto jury is now deliberating the fate of a Toronto senior accused of murdering a fellow resident in a long-term care home and trying to kill another. Peter Brooks, 76, has pleaded not&...

ST. ALBERT, Alta. - An Alberta woman from a farming village of less than 500 people says she was surprised and stressed when she found out she’d won a $50-million Lotto Max jackpot. Lo...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Latest on the death at the Cirque du Soleil show in San Francisco (all times local): 1:26 p.m. Officials say a technician with the Cirque du Soleil “Luzia” show who die...

CALGARY - Federal Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr kicked off his pipeline sales mission on friendly turf Wednesday, addressing Calgary’s Chamber on the importance of the two m...

GANDER, N.L. - Politicians in a small Newfoundland town have declared that Christmas has come too early for many retailers, and they’ve decided to do something about it. Earlier this month, ...

CALGARY - A Canadian Judicial Council inquiry committee says a judge who asked a sexual assault complainant why she couldn’t just keep her knees together should lose his Federal Court job. ...