Category Archives: Canada

EDMONTON - Alberta's energy minister says the current spike in oil prices isn't enough reason to require the industry to spend more on cleaning up the tens of thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells ...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Coast Guard signed an agreement Friday with Britain's Royal Navy to train its sailors on Arctic icebreakers in Canada's Far North. The memorandum of understanding follows a 2020 ...

OTTAWA - An Ottawa homeless shelter where demand for services has skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic served as the backdrop for the first-ever public event for Gov. Gen. Mary May Simon Friday. M...

HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia advocacy group for people with disabilities says its landmark court victory is an opportunity to compel reforms and funding that will improve their lives after decades of mistr...

Montreal-based civil rights lawyer Julius Grey says he will ask a judge to suspend Quebec's system for determining how many family doctors can practise in a specific region. The move comes after Healt...

OTTAWA - The union representing RCMP officers says it will support members' choice "to be vaccinated or not" against COVID-19 following a federal order that Mounties be immunized. The government annou...

OTTAWA - Canada's chief public health officer has shot a dose of optimism into the country's fight against the fourth wave of COVID-19. Dr. Theresa Tam says the efforts made to slow the spread where t...

OTTAWA - The Bloc Qubcois is being confirmed as the winner of the Quebec riding of Trois-Rivires after a judicial recount. Elections Canada says the Bloc beat the Conservatives by 83 votes, after vote...

PRINCE GEORGE - According to Stats Canada number crunchers , the economy added 157-thousand jobs in September, bringing total employment back to pre-pandemic levels for the first time. The national un...

MIRAMICHI, N.B. - A coroner's jury in New Brunswick examining the 2020 fatal police shooting of Rodney Levi has ruled his death a homicide. The 48-year-old man from the Metepenagiag First Nation was s...