Category Archives: Canada

MARTINS POINT, N.S. - An American man who dedicated his life to finding treasure on Nova Scotia's Oak Island was remembered Monday as a larger-than-life figure who became a pillar in the community he ...

A woman who escaped violence and human trafficking, and helped shelter former CIA whistleblower Edward Snowden when he fled to Hong Kong, has arrived in Canada with her daughter af...

OTTAWA - Canada's health program for refugees and asylum seekers is getting a $283 million boost over the next two years. Immigration officials say the funding increase - contained in last week's fede...

OTTAWA - The Senate's human rights committee is launching a study about the coerced sterilization of Indigenous women. Senators on the committee say they want to hold meetings and hear from ...

CHARLOTTETOWN - Prince Edward Island's Green leader is contemplating making history - as the party's first Canadian premier. Islanders will go to the polls April 23 in a provincial elec...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Coast Guard's hope that its first new fisheries science vessel will finally be delivered this summer could be dashed after the ship crashed on its first test run last week. Seasp...

OTTAWA - Jody Wilson-Raybould recommended in 2017 that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau nominate a conservative Manitoba judge to be chief justice of the Supreme Court, even though he wasn't a sitti...

MONTREAL - A Montreal priest who sexually abused two boys under his tutelage was handcuffed and led away to prison Monday as his two victims looked on. Rev. Brian Boucher was impassive as Qu...

Research has uncovered powerful evidence linking shrinking sea ice in the Arctic to snow and rain in central North America. A study published Wednesday in the journal Nature suggests that a long dry p...

MAPLE RIDGE, B.C. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau touted efforts by the Liberal government to help first-time homebuyers put more down on their mortgages during a visit to a region of the co...