Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - A Crown attorney has accused Joshua Boyle of dictating strict weight-loss targets for wife Caitlan Coleman after the couple were freed as hostages of Taliban-linked captors. Prosecutor J...

OTTAWA - The RCMP has charged one of its own with several offences under Canada's official-secrets law. The national police force says Cameron Ortis was charged under three sections of the Security of...

MONTREAL - A Quebec Superior Court judge has invalidated sections of both the federal and Quebec laws on medically assisted dying, ruling Wednesday they were too restrictive and therefore unconst...

VANCOUVER - Construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will likely be delayed due to detailed route hearings, outstanding provincial permits and Indigenous court challenges, says a report f...

HALIFAX - In an era when the intensity of hurricanes is expected to increase across Atlantic Canada, experts say major changes are needed to utility grids, shoreline defences ...

Tiny eyes blinking at him from the rockface of the Burgess Shale drew Jean-Bernard Caron to the fossil of the oldest known ancestor of today's spiders and scorpions. "I was sitting there along the qua...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A provincial cabinet minister in Newfoundland and Labrador has resigned following comments deemed racist by one of the province's largest Indigenous groups. Perry Tri...

OTTAWA - The latest developments as federal party leaders kick off campaigning for the Oct. 21 election (all times Eastern):   2 p.m. Maxime Bernier is styling his upstart People's Party of ...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick politician Greg Thompson, who served in both the provincial and federal cabinets - including time as minister of Veterans Affairs - has died at the age of 72.  Thompso...

CALGARY - The Calgary Zoo's newest king penguin chick is already growing strong thanks to lots of parenting from a pair of male king penguins. Four-year-old Arthur and 17-year-old Nero have been ...