Category Archives: Canada

Five stories in the news today from The Canadian Press --- VERDICT TODAY IN TRAVIS VADER’S TRIAL More than six years after Lyle and Marie McCann vanished without a trace while on a summer r...

CALGARY - Solar power projects that could jolt Alberta’s electricity grid with the addition of hundreds of megawatts of renewable power are being lined up in anticipation of incentives...

EDMONTON - The son of an Alberta couple who disappeared while driving to a camping trip with family more than six years ago said Thursday that a murder verdict in their deaths is a huge...

CALGARY - The Crown says a Calgary teen who died of starvation and untreated diabetes was doomed and trapped by the “two people with the power to save him.” “What little life he...

CONCEPTION BAY SOUTH, N.L. - Riccardo Levi-Setti is now 89 and says he’s no longer “limber” enough for fossil hunting. But the world renowned expert on trilobites...

BLAIRMORE, Alta. - The Crowsnest Pass region in southern Alberta is remembering an agonizing anniversary and still looking for answers as to why a little girl, her father and a woman from a nearby com...

BYLOT ISLAND, Nunavut - Four stranded hunters have been located on an island in Baffin Bay, Nunavut, and should be back home by morning. A spokesman for the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Tr...

TORONTO - Scotiabank is defending its income verification practices in light of a report that says Canadian banks allow foreign borrowers to qualify for mortgages without having to prove the sour...

TORONTO - Angie Illerbrun had no idea her daughter Olivia was having trouble seeing until she had her own eyes checked and the optometrist suggested he take a look at the toddler’s eyes as ...

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - A Saskatchewan woman found guilty along with her lover of plotting to kill each other’s spouse is appealing her conviction. Angela Nicholson’s paperwork&nb...