Category Archives: Canada

EDMONTON - Alberta is changing how it produces and pays for electricity as it enters a new era of greener energy sources. Energy Minister Marg McCuaig-Boyd announced Wednesday the provi...

MONTREAL - A group following up on the work of Quebec’s Charbonneau Commission says the provincial government isn’t doing enough to put the corruption inquiry’s recomm...

MELVILLE, Sask. - A Saskatchewan junior hockey club is apologizing for what it calls a misunderstanding with a transgender girl’s family that hosts hockey players in its home. The Melv...

WINNIPEG - A polar bear cub seen wandering around the northern Manitoba town of Churchill without its mother has a new home. The polar bear conservation centre at the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winn...

VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Aquarium says despite recent challenges, as staff cope with the death of one beluga whale and the critical illness of another, some new residents of the aquarium ar...

HALIFAX - They called it “Der Untergang” - The Downfall. The plan, conceived by a young Canadian man and, allegedly, an American girlfriend, was to kill as many people as po...

HALIFAX - A group of Mi’kmaq chiefs will get an apology from Nova Scotia’s premier Thursday for a government legal brief that implied members of a First Nation band are a conquer...

OTTAWA - Conservative leadership hopeful Maxime Bernier wants the CBC to refocus its mandate with fewer cooking shows, sporting events and Canadian knockoffs of popular U.S. programs. T...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia must prepare for a potential wave of deaths due to illicit fentanyl, and must as a result be careful in addressing painkiller over-prescription, says the province’s chief&n...

WINNIPEG - Advocates say Manitoba should expand human rights protection to overweight people because they are being passed over for everything from job promotions to surgery.  About two doze...