Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - If Hillary Clinton wins Tuesday’s election, Canada’s relationship with the White House could soon be cast as a family affair, thanks to the presidential candidate’s well-d...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The premier of Newfoundland and Labrador confirms that flooding of a reservoir at the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric site is underway. Premier Dwight Ball say...

MAPLE RIDGE, B.C. - A gender-neutral bathroom in a British Columbia high school is providing some chuckles with a lesson in hygiene. A large, blue sticker on the washroom door has an image o...

EDMONTON - A Canadian scientist plans to warn the world’s policy-makers they can no longer ignore that the effects of climate change on a type of tropical forest are already forcing ma...

TORONTO - After returning from Rwanda, retired lieutenant-general Romeo Dallaire avoided Remembrance Day “like the plague.” The prospect of donning his uniform for a public ceremony, or ev...

MIAMI - On the first day she was eligible to vote as a new American citizen, Nancy Osores left home before her pizzeria shift, got on a bus and rode it to a place in her new country’s polit...

MONTREAL - Eight months since arriving in Montreal as Syrian refugees, Dania Saad and her husband, Samir Altabra, continue to receive monthly cheques of $1,000 from their priv...

MONTREAL - Statistics regarding Syrian refugees in Quebec: Number Quebec accepted in 2015: 2,166 (2,151 privately sponsored; 15 government-sponsored) Number Quebec accepted in 2016 (as of Oc...

VANCOUVER - Students returning Monday to a B.C. high school where a Grade 9 girl was stabbed to death will need long-term support to prevent further tragedies years from now, says a mother whose son w...

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for Saturday night’s $30 million Lotto 649 jackpot. However, the guaranteed $1 million prize was claimed by a ticket holder in British Columbia. The jackpot ...