Category Archives: Canada

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's education minister says people spreading misinformation about the effectiveness of vaccines are from the "far, far fringe." A committee of the New Brunswick legislature b...

OTTAWA - A survey probing how facts form beliefs suggests that even when given accurate information, many people will still answer questions incorrectly. The Digital Democracy Project told p...

Six stories in the news for Thursday, Aug. 29 --- B.C. ANTI-GANG UNITS TARGETING KIDS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS A senior officer in the RCMP's gang enforcement unit in Surrey, B.C., says he...

SURREY, B.C. - Sgt. Mike Sanchez didn't expect to find himself working in elementary schools as a senior officer with the RCMP's gang enforcement unit in Surrey, B.C. But when he looks aroun...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government is committing up to $1.5 million to help colleges and universities get better at dealing with sexual violence on campus. Maryam Monsef, the minister for women...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Progressive Conservative Leader Brian Pallister was the target as the leaders of the province's main political parties faced off in a televised debate. Pallister was questioned by ...

LILLOOET, B.C. - About 56,000 fish have made it past a disastrous landslide in British Columbia's Fraser River as crews continue to work to clear debris and find other ways to transport salmon to...

QUEBEC - The Quebec government is saying no to some parents who want to pull their children out of classrooms taught by teachers wearing religious symbols. About 50 parents signed an op...

MONTREAL - A pilot project that analyzed wastewater in five major urban centres suggests Canadians' may use drugs differently depending on which city they call home. For example, the an...

MONTREAL - Nestawedjat, a wealthy, married "lady of the house," died in the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes sometime around 700 BC. Some 2,700 years too late to save her, she was brough...