Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is ordering all petrochemical companies operating in Sarnia, Ont., to take steps to control leaks of the cancer-causing chemical benzene. The order come...

MONTREAL - A woman in Quebec's Eastern Townships has been awarded nearly $460,000 in damages after she was attacked five years ago by a trio of dogs. In a May 15 decision, a Quebec Superior Court judg...

FORT NELSON, B.C. - A rainy Thursday in and around Fort Nelson was exactly what fire crews were looking for. In a video released late Thursday night by the B.C. Wildfire Service, fire behaviour specia...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Rain, cooler temperatures help Western wildfires The oilsands hub city of Fort ...

EDMONTON - RCMP in Alberta say they have linked the killings of four women in the 1970s to a serial sex offender. They say the killer has since died. Investigators with the historical homicide unit we...

TORONTO - A defamation lawsuit filed by the mother of Marc and Craig Kielburger against the Canadaland podcast and its host will head to trial after an Ontario court rejected an application to have it...

OTTAWA - Eight in 10 Canadians back a woman's right to an abortion and two in three don't want the notwithstanding clause used to restrict access to abortions, a new poll suggests. The Leger survey al...

WINNIPEG - Two former acquaintances of an admitted serial killer are expected to testify today in the murder trial of Jeremy Skibicki. One of those is set to provide details about the behaviour of the...

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Every day since a wildfire began menacing the city of Fort McMurray, Alta., grimy, exhausted firefighters have been spilling of helicopters at the end of another one of the toug...

PORT ALBERNI, B.C. - The mother and stepfather of six-year-old Dontay Lucas have been sentenced to 15 years each in prison by a B.C. Supreme Court judge. Mitchell Frank and Rykel Frank stood in shackl...