Canada News

Today, Dec. 1st, 2009, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is heading to China from Ottawa for his official visit from Dec. 2 to 6, 2009. During his visit in China, he will go to Beijing, Shanghai, Hongkong. If you want...

The House of Commons has voted in favour of holding a judicial inquiry into the treatment of Afghan detainees, but the majority motion will likely be ignored by the governing Conservatives. The Harper government, citing national security concerns, has been...

Ace right-hander Roy Halladay says if the Toronto Blue Jays intend to trade him, it must happen before spring training, one of his representatives says. The New York Yankees declined to offer salary arbitration to World Series MVP Hideki Matsui,...

A Nova Scotia poultry processor is laying off 96 unionized workers and 14 supervisors and managers at its plant in New Minas. The largest hospital in Halifax is using security guards to prohibit high school students from going into the...

On Tuesday, the Toronto Raptors lost their fourth straight game, 106-102 to the Washington Wizards, and with road games coming in Atlanta, Washington and Chicago to finish this week, the club will be in tough. The Raptors (7-12), who have...

The two centrepieces of the Montreal Alouettes’ championship run have vowed they’ll return in 2010. And, as long as quarterback Anthony Calvillo and head coach Marc Trestman are seemingly joined at the hip, this team should have a long run...

I had a good day today. Although dead broke and buttless and awaiting my pension cheque..I was invited up to an old friends place to help chop firewood and have a roast pork dinner. It was a foggy and grey...

This article is one of my Canadian Military History pieces, on a forgotten topic. The Korean War was the first successful Peace Keeping operation, one which 506 Canadian soldiers didn't come home but most due to illness and not to...

To be fair Obama has tried to declassify more data and be more open. However, he obviously gives in to pressure from intelligence agencies. Those agencies believe that the less the public knows the better. Of course it is better...

A full-time drug dog will be sniffing through the jails of Saskatchewan starting next spring. Trained police dogs have been used in Saskatchewan’s corrections facilities since 2007, but only periodically...Other dogs will be available from Regina, Prince Albert and the...