Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - BlackBerry addicts are notoriously loyal, but even they will have a hard time sticking by their beloved device now that BlackBerry Ltd. is outsourcing production, say observers who admi...

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Sept. 28 --- CARR HIGHLIGHTS PIPELINE BENEFITS: Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr is talking up the benefits of the Pacific Northwest LNG proje...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says a record number of immigrants arriving in the last year helped push the country’s population to an estimated 36,286,425 as of July 1. The agency says th...

TORONTO - Bombardier’s CEO struck an apologetic yet optimistic note Wednesday as he described the company’s efforts to get two of the city’s key transit system projects back on track...

OTTAWA - Shimon Peres visited Canada countless times during a career that spanned more than six decades and included holding virtually every single position in the Israeli government. But it might be ...

OTTAWA - Some of what was said Wednesday following the death of former Israeli president and prime minister Shimon Peres: ___  “He was above all a man of peace and a man dedicated to t...

SASKATOON - Charlene Klyne lost her sight after a deadly school shooting in northern Saskatchewan and still has shotgun pellets lodged in her jaw and chest. Klyne was among seven people hurt in the sh...

BANGOR, Maine - A retired RCMP officer accused of smuggling narwhal tusks across the border pleaded guilty Wednesday in a U.S. court to 10 money-laundering counts. Prosecutors said Gregory Logan,...

Government research has found the presence of a chemical used in pesticides in fish, birds and a mammal from the St. Lawrence River to the south Florida coast. “We found 100 per c...

OTTAWA - The NDP is calling on the Liberal government to immediately rescind a directive that allows security agencies to use information that may have been obtained through torture. The Liberals - wh...