High hopes for Saskatchewan tourism

Tourism officials in Saskatchewan hope a multimillion-dollar display of the province’s attractions at the recent Winter Olympics in Vancouver will lead to an influx of tourism dollars at home.
The provincial pavilion at the Games featured a giant projection sphere, along with a separate building to showcase performers like the hip-hop [...]

Grizzly bear population dwindling

Conservation groups say a new report confirms that the number of grizzly bears in Alberta has dwindled while the government has for almost a decade put off a change to their protection status. The report includes results of a DNA-based count the government ordered after the province’s endangered species conservation committee recommended in [...]

Stamp out racism now

Elizabeth Cromwell froze as news of a cross-burning came over the radio at her home in one of Canada’s oldest black settlements. In an instant, she recalled her bleakest days as a black Nova Scotian. The report described how an interracial family in a rural corner of the province awoke last week to find [...]

Canada's best of

Canada is a vast country — in fact, it is the world’s second-largest nation. Yet it has a citizenry that numbers just 32 million, making it smaller in population than California. A country of great cultural and ethnic diversity, Canada is a grand mosaic of peoples and traditions, ranging from its indigenous First [...]

Enjoying the view at Riding Mountain

Riding Mountain is located on the Manitoba Escarpment in south-central Manitoba, near the geographical centre of Canada, a 2978 square kilometre island of forest rising out of a sea of farmland. Plants and animals from three ecological zones are found in the park, all protected from the radical changes wrought [...]

Stunning British Columbia

British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California have signed two agreements aimed at boosting the West Coast economy and protecting the environment.
The deals were signed in Vancouver at a meeting of B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell, Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire, Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California.
B.C. and the three [...]

Locals know

Olympic fever and national pride hits an all-time high as Canada prepares to welcome the world for the 2010 Winter Games. The Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC), guided by a panel of five of Canada’s esteemed travel experts, has unveiled a list of the nation’s Top 13 Must-Experience NOW Winter places. The 13 spots come [...]

New Brunswick: Study shows just 15.8% of people in province live an hour from best treatment

A new study says New Brunswick is one of the worst places in Canada to have a heart attack, unless the patient is lucky enough to live within an hour of Saint John. University of Calgary researchers released a report on [...]

Former NS Premier Rodney MacDonald

Members of the Nova Scotia legislature expressed remorse Thursday for expense claims described by the province’s auditor general as inappropriate and excessive, but one Conservative was defiant over his purchase of an $8,000 generator installed in his home.
Even former premier Rodney MacDonald was caught up in the all-party embarrassment, acknowledging [...]

First Nations University of Canada

The Saskatchewan government has announced it will not fund the First Nations University of Canada after April 1, saying it has lost confidence in the leadership of the institution.
The province’s annual contribution to FNUC amounted to $5.2 million, or just over a fifth of the school’s annual budget.
“Our [...]