Category Archives: Canada

Mounties lay secrets-law charges against RCMP intelligence official
OTTAWA - Cameron Jay Ortis, a senior RCMP intelligence official, made a brief court appearance Friday on charges of breaching Canada's secrets law. Ortis, 47, was charged under thr...
Sep 15, 2019

Provincial cabinet minister resigns over 'race card' comment about Innu Nation
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A provincial cabinet minister in Newfoundland and Labrador has resigned for making comments in a voicemail message deemed racist by one of the province's largest Indigenous gro...
Sep 15, 2019

Party leaders contend with posts and past lives from candidates in campaign
OTTAWA - The federal party leaders have spent the first days of the election campaign talking policy, as they'd like, and dismissing and defending candidates over old social-media posts, which they'd ...
Sep 15, 2019

Fewer trees, higher costs blamed for devastating downturn in B.C. forestry
VANCOUVER - High log prices and dwindling timber supply are driving the crisis in British Columbia's forestry industry that has devastated communities and kneecapped the provincial economy, observers ...
Sep 15, 2019

Two students dead, several seriously injured in Vancouver Island bus rollover
Two University of Victoria students died and more than a dozen other people were injured after a bus on its way to a marine research centre rolled over on a narrow gravel road on V...
Sep 14, 2019

The Latest: First debate night of the campaign, minus the Liberal leader
OTTAWA - The latest developments as federal party leaders take part in the first debate of the campaign (all times Eastern): 10 p.m. The first leaders debate of the federal election campaign ha...
Sep 14, 2019

Trump front and centre as talk of trade, jobs emerges on campaign trail
OTTAWA - A familiar U.S. face finally showed up front and centre Saturday on the federal campaign trail: Donald Trump. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh promised to go toe-to-toe with the m...
Sep 14, 2019 (File photo/The Canadian Press)

Dorian damage worse than first thought in Nova Scotia's famed Annapolis Valley
HALIFAX - Closer inspections of the ripening apple crop in Nova Scotia's fertile Annapolis Valley have revealed the damage caused by post-tropical storm Dorian was worse than first thought. ...
Sep 14, 2019

Quebecer behind assisted dying ruling wants to see it become election issue
MONTREAL - Armed with a court judgment that potentially expands access to medical aid in dying across the country, one of the Quebecers who led the legal fight described it Thursday as a win for ...
Sep 14, 2019

Glen Assoun to receive initial compensation payment for wrongful murder conviction
HALIFAX - A Halifax man will receive interim compensation from the federal and provincial governments after spending almost 17 years in prison as the result of a wrongful conv...
Sep 14, 2019