Category Archives: Canada

Alex Trebek in Ottawa to open Royal Canadian Geographical Society's new HQ
OTTAWA - Canadian "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek recently completed what he hopes will be his last chemotherapy treatment, he told the Royal Canadian Geographical Society Monday afternoon as he helped o...
May 15, 2019

Federal fire officials update forecast for this year's wildfire season
EDMONTON - Officials say the wildfire danger is already high to extreme in areas of Western Canada. Natural Resources Canada's Northern Forestry Centre in Edmonton is providing a briefing today o...
May 15, 2019

Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques announces winners of science contest
FREDERICTON - Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques took time from his busy schedule on the International Space Station today to encourage young students to pursue science - telling them th...
May 15, 2019

Health authorities say 66 died in Montreal during last year's heat wave
Montreal health authorities now say 66 people died in the city during a heat wave between June 30 and July 8 last year. An investigation has shown two-thirds of the victims were over th...
May 15, 2019

End of U.S. tariffs on Canadian, Mexican steel and aluminum close: Mnuchin
OTTAWA - A top Trump administration cabinet member says the end of punishing steel and aluminium tariffs on Canada and Mexico is close at hand. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin sa...
May 15, 2019

Quebec's youth protection agencies need help, managers say after girl's death
MONTREAL - The heads of Quebec youth protection agencies are highlighting a shortage of qualified case workers and calling for changes to prevent tragedies like the recent death of...
May 15, 2019

Scientists challenge claim that Labrador is site of planet's oldest life
A team of geological researchers is challenging claims that some of the earliest life forms were discovered in northern Labrador in an ancient portion of the earth's surface. The argument that a rocky...
May 15, 2019

Danger subsiding after B.C. properties threatened by several weekend wildfires
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - The BC Wildfire Service has come through its busiest period of the young 2019 wildfire season, responding to several blazes, including one that prompted an evacuation order&...
May 15, 2019

Trudeau offers Canadian lumber, steel to help rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral
PARIS - Canada is offering homegrown softwood lumber and steel to help with the reconstruction of Paris's famed Notre Dame Cathedral, which was partially destroyed by fire in mid-April. In a lett...
May 15, 2019

Facebook takes down anti-vaxxer page that used falsified image of girl who died
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The mother of a young Newfoundland girl says she's relieved a social media company has disabled a site that used images of her dead daughter to promote an anti-vaccination campaign....
May 15, 2019