Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA — The military’s top brass says progress has been made in the war on sexual misconduct in the ranks, as evidenced by an increase in the number of cases being reported. But they admi...

HALIFAX — The provincial NDP in Nova Scotia has handily won a byelection in one of its Halifax strongholds in what one pollster says is an early test of the pa...

SASKATOON — A 26-year-old man is recovering in hospital after he was attacked in northern Saskatchewan by a lone wolf. The man, a shift worker at Cameco’s Cigar Lake uranium mine...

OTTAWA — Canada Post and its largest union have reached a tentative settlement, averting the prospect of job action this week at the postal service. The tentative agreem...

NORWAY HOUSE, Man. — When Ron Evans was 17, he worked as a driver shuttling staff home after their shifts at the Norway House Indian Hospital in northern Manitoba. He’s now racking his bra...

OTTAWA — Labour Minister MaryAnn Mihychuk says Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers have reached tentative agreements, averting the prospect of a labour dispute that ha...

SMITHERS, B.C. — On a lonely stretch of pavement in Smithers, B.C., a black-and-white sign cautions passersby: “The end is near.” But rather than warn of impending doomsday, the sign...

REGINA — Researchers at the University of Regina say there’s a such a mishmash of programs aimed at helping first responders cope with stress that it’s tough to know if any are worki...

WINNIPEG — A Winnipeg man accused of sending letter bombs in the mail, including one that cost a lawyer her hand, has fired his lawyer. Guido Amsel, who faces five counts of attempted murder,&nb...

WINNIPEG — Ontario’s chief forensic pathologist says there’s no way to determine the cause of death for six infants whose remains were found in a storage locker, but the babies were ...