Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau approved two major oil pipeline expansions Tuesday, including the deeply controversial Trans Mountain line through suburban Vancouver, while maintainin...

ALMA, N.B. - A massive lobster taller than a toddler was caught in the Bay of Fundy - and then bought by a vegan activist so it could be returned, alive, to its chilly home. Catherine MacDon...

TORONTO - A new elders council that will offer advice to Ontario’s attorney general should help make the justice system more responsive to the aboriginal population, the provincial government sa...

CALGARY - A seven-year-old boy who was given holistic remedies by his mother before he died from massive organ failure could have been saved with a simple antibiotic, the woman’s trial...

EDMONTON - A top adviser to U.S. president-elect Donald Trump is visiting Alberta in January. Kellyanne Conway will speak at a private fundraising dinner hosted by the Alberta Prosperity Fun...

DAWSON CITY, Yukon - Residents of West Dawson who depend on an ice road to cross a section of the Yukon River are still waiting for the water to freeze.  Thinner ice in some areas and open w...

CALGARY - Nearly a third of oil and gas industry employers are expecting another tough year in 2017 after 65 per cent of them were forced to cut staff this year, according to a survey by recruitm...

OTTAWA - Auditor general Michael Ferguson broke with convention in his latest reports released Tuesday, expressing frustration with the federal government’s perpetual fixation with process ...

MONTREAL - The lawyer for an ex-Liberal party organizer convicted for his role in the sponsorship scandal is arguing his elderly client should avoid prison. Gerald Souliere told th...

Halifax police say they cannot confirm whether a needle found in a dish of cooked P.E.I. potatoes was ever “embedded” in any food item. Police said Monday they had received a complain...