Canada

Sex crime case of Montreal billionaire Robert Miller to return to court in October

MONTREAL - The case against Robert Miller has moved a step closer to trial, even as questions remain about the ailing billionaire's ability to appear in court to face multiple sex charges. Lawyers for...

Jul 3, 2024

Lt.-Gen. Jennie Carignan named Canada's newest chief of the defence staff

OTTAWA - The federal government says it is naming Lt.-Gen. Jennie Carignan as defence chief, making her the first woman to hold the Canadian Armed Forces' top job. Carignan is currently the military's...

Jul 3, 2024

In the news today: UoT encampment ordered taken down, Nova Scotia needs new cash

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Toronto police to enforce encampment order. The Toronto Police Service says it will enforce a court order gran...

Jul 3, 2024

Police say they will enforce judge's order that U of T encampment must come down

TORONTO - The Toronto Police Service says it will enforce a court order granted yesterday that says demonstrators at a pro-Palestinian protest encampment at the University of Toronto must dismantle th...

Jul 3, 2024

Court hears accused in Coutts blockade thought protest could lead to war

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - One of two men accused of conspiring to kill Mounties at the 2022 Coutts border blockade characterized the protest as a last stand and told his mother there "will be a war" if poli...

Sheldon Spackman Jul 2, 2024

Liberal MP Ken McDonald says he won’t run again

OTTAWA - Liberal MP Ken McDonald, who opposed his party over the federal carbon price, says he won't run in the next federal election. McDonald has represented the riding of Avalon in Newfoundland and...

Jul 2, 2024

Court orders protesters to take down UofT encampment

TORONTO - The University of Toronto has suffered irreparable harm from a pro-Palestinian protest encampment that has seized control of part of its downtown campus, an Ontario judge said Tuesday in ord...

Jul 2, 2024

Helicopter pilot dies fighting wildfire in Northwest Territories

YELLOWKNIFE - A helicopter pilot has died while fighting a wildfire in the Northwest Territories. Transportation Safety Board officials had said an aircraft operated by Great Slave Helicopters crashed...

Jul 2, 2024

Trudeau missing Calgary Stampede this summer, his only absence outside COVID-19 years

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's summer campaign circuit will not include a stop at the Calgary Stampede. The annual 10-day rodeo and festival is usually a must-do event for politicians and Tr...

Sheldon Spackman Jul 2, 2024

Jewish teachers file antisemitism complaint against B.C. Teachers' Federation: lawyer

VANCOUVER - A Vancouver labour lawyer says a group of British Columbia teachers has launched a human rights complaint against their union, saying the BC Teachers' Federation "has engaged in and enable...

Jul 2, 2024