Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Bill Davis, the 18th premier of Ontario and one of the country's longest-serving premiers, has died at 92. A statement from his family says Davis was surrounded by his relatives when he died...

TORONTO - The Canadian business community appears to be largely supportive of the Quebec government's move to impose the country's first vaccine passport system. The Canadian Chamber of Commerce says ...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - A nursing shortage is affecting the country's most northern communities, with eight health centres run by nurses expectedto temporarily shut their doors if staff aren't found to kee...

DUNCAN, B.C. - A Vancouver Island city is putting out a call for a new kind of ambassador after deciding it will no longer send a town crier to greet visitors or represent the community at events. Dun...

OTTAWA - A prominent gun-control group is accusing the federal Liberals of endangering public safety by backpedalling on a pledge to ensure firearm buyers have a valid licence. In a written submission...

WASHINGTON - The United States will remain on the sidelines for now as Canada gamely welcomes back fully vaccinated American citizens and permanent residents. As of midnight Sunday night, non-essentia...

MONTREAL - The Montreal First Peoples' Festival is back until Aug. 11 at the Place des Festivals and other locations in the city, a year after most Indigenous events such as powwows were put off due t...

MONTREAL - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole says he wants to financially support the creation of a Quebec research and development centre on food self-sufficiency in Sainte-Hyacinthe, southeast of Mon...

VANCOUVER - The endangered southern resident killer whale population may have suffered more loss with one of the orcas presumed dead, says an expert. The orca, K-21, was seen in the last week of July ...

WASHINGTON - Canada's border agents reached a new tentative agreement with the federal government late Friday after a daylong work-to-rule campaign left long lines of semi-trailers and passenger vehic...