Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - A new report suggests women are joining the growing ranks of Ontario’s entrepreneurs in increasing numbers, outpacing the rest of the country. The Ontario edition of the Global 20...

EDMONTON - Even a geologist will admit these brownish-grey, fine-grained, indifferently striped rocks look boring. But a University of Alberta-led team has teased apart the chemistry of these sto...

OTTAWA - The country’s former chief statistician is casting doubt on the Liberal government’s promised commitments to Statistics Canada based on its handling of an issue that forced h...

HALIFAX - The candidates for Halifax’s highest municipal office have agreed to ditch lawn signs as a way of sending a message that political campaigns shouldn’t produce unnecessary waste.&...

BISHOPS FALLS, N.L. - Atlantic Canadians are offering financial support and encouragement for a young hockey player from Bishop’s Falls, Newfoundland, who suffered a serious head ...

Five stories in the news today from The Canadian Press --- CANADA’S TATIANA MASLANY HONOURED WITH EMMY She’s known as one of the hardest working women in TV, and last night Tatiana Maslany...

TORONTO - An Ontario woman consumed by her religious beliefs not only turned a blind eye to the violence her husband inflicted on his daughter but encouraged the abuse that led to the girl&#...

OTTAWA - British pensioners living in Canada are lobbying the Liberal government to make indexing their pensions to the cost of living a requirement for any future free trade deal with Britain - an ag...

OTTAWA - Anne Puckridge has two medals, earned during her service to Britain in the Second World War. The 91-year-old jokes that she is still fighting - except now it is against&nb...

OTTAWA - The military ombudsman has, for the first time, literally mapped out the numerous hurdles which ill and injured soldiers are forced to jump as they leave the Canadian Forces and re-enter...