Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The RCMP is defending its investigation of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, which has come under sustained fire since the politically charged case against the military's former second-in-command col...

Water levels are expected to rise again this weekend between Ottawa and Montreal, even as New Brunswick's floods are effectively over. Officials warned late Thursday that "significant" rainfall is exp...

OTTAWA - A new plan to help rural Canada thrive will focus on expanding internet and cellphone coverage, even funding communities that want to be their own service providers, the minister in...

OTTAWA - China is detaining two Canadians in harsh conditions and U.S. lawmakers won't rest until they are freed, says a powerful Republican senator. The full-throated American support for Canadian ex...

OTTAWA - The government does not have to release parts of a memo about the Senate's expense scandals in 2013 because it constituted legal advice for then prime minister Stephen Harper, the Federa...

MONTREAL - Quebec says the English school board serving Montreal must come up with a suitable solution to overcrowding in the French-language system or the education minister will unilateral...

FRASER LAKE, B.C. - An out-of-control wildfire in central British Columbia has prompted a local state of emergency and several evacuations. The Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako issued a state of e...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - An Inuit land-claim group is asking the federal government to permanently protect large sections of the Eastern Arctic from any industrial development. The request is part of a huge...

OTTAWA - Politicians are increasingly concerned that social media giants have become so big, powerful and rich that they are effectively above the law - at least in a small country like Canada. T...

TORONTO - The case of an Ontario woman who was murdered by her husband days after she filed for divorce underscores that victims of domestic violence face even greater danger when ...