Category Archives: Canada

Four stories in the news for Thursday, Sept. 5 --- CANADA'S BIANCA ANDREESCU HEADS TO U.S. OPEN SEMIFINALS Bianca Andreescu became the first teenager to reach the U.S. Open semifinals in a d...

VICTORIA - One of Canada's oldest fall fairs is putting a new twist on its annual showcase of local livestock, produce and fruit by adding a new category for best home-grown marijuana. The C...

MONTREAL - Some lakeside residents of a town northwest of Montreal that was severely flooded last spring after a dike ruptured are now upset the government's repairs to the structure will ob...

OTTAWA - Change. Forward. Together. For you. They are the buzzwords of political campaigns worldwide, used time and again in various combinations, to sum up a campaign theme in few enough letters...

MONTREAL - A Montreal-area woman says her parents and their friends are safe after riding out Hurricane Dorian in the attic of a home in the Bahamas. Kristin Dudley said in a brief phon...

TORONTO - A civil rights group is asking the courts to declare an Ontario law mandating anti-carbon tax stickers on gas pumps to be illegal. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association says the Stic...

OTTAWA - The Federal Court will hear arguments next month as prosecutors try to break a stalemate in the stalled court martial of Canada's top military judge. Col. Mario Dutil is facing four charges&n...

OTTAWA - The Liberals are naming business consultant Dominic Barton as Canada's new ambassador to China. Barton steps into the role with the two countries engaged in a diplomatic feud. At the cen...

OTTAWA - A trade tribunal is investigating the federal government's plan to add a third shipyard to its multibillion-dollar shipbuilding strategy over allegations the process is rigged in fa...

OTTAWA - When 14 former NDP candidates and officials in New Brunswick defected to the Greens on Tuesday, they acted out a switch the Green party hopes more left-leaning voters will make in the upcomin...