Category Archives: Canada

FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. - Two newspapers in British Columbia are publishing their last editions this week, eliminating coverage by community newspapers for a large swath of the province's northeast. Glaci...

MONTREAL - A Quebec coroner says the death of a 16-year-old girl might have been prevented had police spent more than 10 minutes looking for her. Neebin Icebound died of hypothermia Oct. 9, 2022, in t...

Many legal experts say a Supreme Court ruling that found much of Ottawa's environmental assessment law unconstitutional will have no impact on other federal moves, such as clean electricity regulation...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government has appointed former ambassador Deborah Lyons as Canada's Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism. Lyons is Canada's former ambass...

OTTAWA - A federal tribunal is asking senators to divulge emails that it believes are relevant to determining whether an employee was fired on the basis of racial discrimination. A tribunal is hearing...

VICTORIA - The B.C. government has introduced legislation that would rein in what it says is a rapidly expanding short-term rental market. Premier David Eby says the number of short-term rentals has b...

WINNIPEG - Lawyers for a man accused of killing his parents and attacking a nurse at a Winnipeg hospital nearly two years ago say he is not criminally responsible due to mental illness. Trevor Farley ...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly says a group of Canadians has crossed safely from the West Bank into neighbouring Jordan as violence continues in Israel's escalating war against Hamas. J...

TORONTO - A woman who has accused Peter Nygard of sexual assault is telling jurors at his Toronto trial that the former fashion mogul flew her to Toronto under the guise of helping with her fashion ca...

Montreal Mayor Valrie Plante has joined a new United Nations group to help local and regional governments implement the organization's sustainable development plan. The Advisory Group on Local and Reg...