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After pleas from Manitoba, Walmart decides to pull machetes from website, stores across Canada

Walmart Canada will stop selling machetes — a type of weapon frequently used in violent crimes — in stores across the country, after Manitoba's government pressured the retailer...

Parents of teen burned at Saskatoon school question how police, school officials handled multiple warnings

The parents of two 15-year-old girls at Evan Hardy Collegiate in Saskatoon say they went to police and the school multiple times between June...

Cut off from the United States, Point Roberts, Wash., worries it won’t survive a trade war

Point Roberts, a U.S. community in Washington state, is so Canadian that it advertises its gas prices in litres as well as gallons.It's also wholly...

B.C.’s Kwantlen Polytechnic University lays off 70 faculty members

Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) says it will be issuing full or partial layoff notices to approximately 70 faculty members amid a reduction in revenue...

Rankin Inlet hunter thankful for rescue after snowmobile sinks into ice

As he searched for his GPS on the sled, he said he heard the sound of an approaching snowmobile – drawn by the light...

Postville artist’s work among Indigenous pieces to hang on Confederation Building walls

Work by a Postville artist will hang on the walls of Confederation Building as part of an effort toward reconciliation and celebrating Labrador's Inuit population...

N.S. woman ordered to pay $60K to former nurse for online defamation

The mother of a severely disabled Nova Scotia man has been ordered to pay a former nurse $60,000 in damages for defamatory online posts...

New dorm buildings for Buddhist nuns’ campus get the go-ahead in Three Rivers

Three Rivers council gave final approval this week to a development application from Buddhist nuns to construct two new dormitory buildings on land the...

Foreign-trained family doctors graduate from N.B. licensing program

The wait for a family doctor may soon come to an end for many New Brunswickers as 10 new physicians join the health-care system.The internationally trained...

City pulling plug on newcomer reception centres

Citing a decrease in demand from newcomers in the shelter system, the City of Ottawa is cancelling plans to set up tent-like reception centres...

Toronto woman pleads guilty to negligence in dog attack that seriously injured child

A Toronto woman who faced multiple charges in a dog attack that seriously injured a child has pleaded guilty to some of them, including...

Another London Beer Store is closing, along with 4 others across Ontario

A Beer Store location in London is one of five across Ontario set to close at the end of April, marking the second Beer Store closure...

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