Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - A new registry identifying a lengthy list of wrongful conviction cases is launching this week with the intention to draw more attention to the problem. The registry was developed by staff and...

MONTREAL - Residents of a Quebec town have voted overwhelmingly against a rail bypass project that would divert trains around Lac-Mgantic, where a freight train derailment killed 47 people nearly 10 y...

OTTAWA - Thousands of Canadians are petitioning the federal Liberals to live up to their election promise to ban the live export of horses for slaughter. Statistics Canada data show since the promise ...

MONTREAL - Quebec Premier Franois Legault wants Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to make the flow of migrants across the Roxham Road border crossing a priority during an upcoming meeting with the U.S. pr...

BELLA COOLA, B.C. - A carved pole that embodies the history and culture of a British Columbia First Nation is being welcomed back to its ancestral home, more than 100 years after it was taken. Dancing...

YELLOWKNIFE - Inmates at the Yellowknife jail concentrate as they skin several squirrels, deftly moving their knives to remove the small animals' soft fur, then scraping the remaining flesh and fat aw...

VANCOUVER, Wash. - After immigrating to Canada from Kenya with dreams of starting her own business, entrepreneur Jackee Kasandy soon concluded that Canadian banks weren't keen on opening their vaults ...

Montreal police say a woman is dead and a man was seriously injured in a stabbing in the city's Villeray-Saint-Michel-Parc-Extension borough. Police say they received a 911 call for an armed assault i...

MONTREAL - A Quebec man was found guilty of multiple charges on Sunday for his role in the abduction of a couple in their 70s from Upstate New York in September 2020. A jury convicted Gary Arnold on f...

OTTAWA - Federal Sport Minister Pascale St-Onge is calling on her provincial and territorial counterparts to establish independent bodies to handle harassment complaints from athletes by the end of th...