Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - The federal government isn’t ruling out offering financial support to the struggling newspaper industry, Heritage Minister Melanie Joly said Friday. Newspapers are hurt...

OTTAWA - It’s been a full year since the 2015 election - an anniversary that was hard to miss this week on Parliament Hill amid all the media-driven assessments, reflections and slide shows...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut’s medical health officer says the territory won’t immediately change its policy on prevention of lung infections in newborns despite having some of the...

WINNIPEG - Police in Winnipeg are investigating whether a young child suffered a possible fentanyl overdose. Const. Rob Carver says paramedics were called to a home Tuesday night and found&n...

OTTAWA - Canada has added its voice to calls for the international community to do more as aid groups brace for a potential humanitarian crisis near the Iraqi city of Mosul. Iraqi and Kurdish forces t...

HALIFAX - Seventy people died of opioid overdoses in Nova Scotia in the first eight months of 2016, a spike that is raising early fears of a British Columbia-style crisis. The province’s chief p...

REGINA - Husky Energy has asked for more time to submit technical reports on an oil pipeline spill into the North Saskatchewan River in July. The Saskatchewan government says Husky (TSX:HSE) ...

For Lisa Abbott, word of more heavy rains coming to Atlantic Canada this weekend is a distressing reminder of the Thanksgiving Day deluge that wrecked her home and left her still trying...

TORONTO - A convicted killer who is the heir to a multi-million dollar aviation company will apply for legal aid to help fund his defence in two upcoming murder trials. Dellen Millard, who was convict...

MONTREAL - The woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by a Liberal member of the Quebec legislature says his career is not as important as what she had to endure. Alice Paquet told&nbs...