Prince Edward Island’s government has cancelled an immigration program for entrepreneurs following the discovery of widespread abuse and fraud. “The program wasn’t meeting the expectations of Islanders, and it wasn’t meeting the expectations of government,” Economic Development Minister Chris Palmer said Wednesday morning. …...إقرأالمزيد

Maxime Bernier, a member of Parliament from the French-speaking province of Quebec, launched a new federal party today called the People’s Party of Canada. He also unveiled the party’s mandate, and said it will have 338 candidates running in next year’s federal election. “We don’t believe that government intervention is…...إقرأالمزيد

Lake Superior is the world’s largest freshwater body of water by surface area. It’s location in northern Ontario means it has not had quite the same amount of development pressure. That pressure is growing however as more people seek waterfront property to live or for vacation purposes. The Nature Consevancy of Canada has just…...إقرأالمزيد

The Russian military is conducting a series of exercises designed to test and showcase its ability to mount large-scale joint operations at the very eastern edge of the Russian Arctic, more than 7,000 kilometres from its main base near the border with Norway. The exercises are part of the much larger Vostok 2018 (East 2018) war games involving nearly…...إقرأالمزيد

(public commenting open on all RCI stories at bottom. Comments will be posted after approval) The narwhal, an iconic Arctic species, is almost never spotted in the south. Somehow one narwhal, thought to be a young male, became lost, really lost, and ended up far to the south in the St. Lawrence. Not only that, but the narwhal seems to have joined a…...إقرأالمزيد

Marijuana becomes legal in Canada on Oct. 17. our neighbours to the south? It’s a change that apparently is not sitting especially well well with our neighbours to the south. According to a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol senior official, those who work in the cannabis industry, those who invest in the cannabis industry, and anybody…...إقرأالمزيد

It’s been 38 years now–the spring and summer of 1980–that Terry Fox first won our attention with his unlikely and gutsy run that took him half-way across the country–a run he had to cut short because he could no longer physically produce the equivalent of a marathon every day to raise money for cancer research. Fred…...إقرأالمزيد

Canada’s postal service has issued the first of a series of five stamps which will honour first responders. This new series will honour paramedics, the Canadian Forces, police, search and rescue personnel, and firefighters. The first stamp in the series, which depicts paramedics, was unveiled yesterday at a ceremony at the Ambulance New Brunswick…...إقرأالمزيد

U.S. ambassador Kelly Craft is in Gander, Newfoundland today for a memorial on the 17th anniversary of the tragedy of 9/11. On September 11th in 2001, the United States was attacked by the terrorist group al-Qaeda in four coordinated air plane hijackings, and two of the jets crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City.…...إقرأالمزيد

Snow is forecast for the interior of British Columbia tonight and parts of north-western Alberta. With temperatures dropping the rain will likely turn to snow according to Environment Canada. Special weather statements were issued for areas including Fort St. John, Dawson Creek and Prince George, warning of rain turning to snow as the cold front passes.…...إقرأالمزيد