Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - She is 900 kilograms, has her own Twitter feed and may be cruising East Coast waters in a dizzying, long-distance quest for love. Lydia, the aptly named “rock-star” of the g...

DAWSON CITY, Yukon - Sandy Silver led the Liberal party from just one seat in Yukon’s legislature to a majority government in Monday night’s election. Here’s a sk...

TORONTO - Ontario will take steps next week to deal with rising house prices in the Toronto area, but it will not follow British Columbia’s lead and impose a tax on foreign buyers. Finance Minis...

REGINA - A Regina nightclub has pulled an ad promoting two-for-one tequila the night before Remembrance Day following an online backlash. The ad for Gabbo’s featured a background of po...

CHARLOTTETOWN - The low turnout for Prince Edward Island’s plebiscite on electoral reform - 36 per cent - means it’s debatable whether the results can be considered a clear expression...

VICTORIA - Ships off the West Coast could be forced to yield the right of way to killer whales as part of a federal ocean protection plan, says a Liberal MP. The $1.5-billion plan to improve...

DAWSON CITY, Yukon - Sandy Silver, who took the Yukon Liberals from third-party status to a majority government in Monday’s territorial election, was being coy the morning after. “Doe...

SURREY, B.C. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has committed $45 million in federal funding for a new building at the Surrey, B.C., campus of Simon Fraser University to advance research and in...

WINNIPEG - An employee at the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease in Winnipeg may have been exposed to the Ebola virus after a tear in a protective suit was noticed during decont...

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - The newspaper that serves Fort McMurray is bracing for more change six months after a wildfire forced its staff to flee the northern Alberta city along with more than 80,00...