Category Archives: Canada

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. ...

PORT MOODY, B.C. - A sexual assault case involving the mayor of Port Moody, B.C., will return to court on Nov. 13, but the politician's lawyer says "alternative measures" are being pursued t...

OTTAWA - The abortion issue has been getting renewed attention ahead of the October election, which could be one way the political conversation in the United States is flowing across the border -...

OTTAWA - Joshua Boyle acknowledges hitting his wife Caitlan Coleman with a broom after they were freed from overseas captivity, but says he did it only because she asked to be spanked. Under cross-exa...

OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau will ask Canada's Governor General to ring the bell Wednesday for a 40-day federal election campaign, one that pits a scandal-ridden Liberal government against a Conservative o...

CALGARY - Amnesty International has warned Alberta Premier Jason Kenney that his government's fight against oil and gas industry foes puts human rights at risk. The head of the group's Canad...

MONTREAL - Two Quebecers who were successful in getting a court to invalidate sections of the federal and Quebec laws on medically assisted dying want the issue to be given a prominent place on t...

The federal government has released its long-awaited policy on developing the Canadian Arctic in a changing environmental and political world. But after three years of work on the lengthy document, so...

WINNIPEG - Brian Pallister and his Progressive Conservatives went early and won big. Pallister called an election more than a year before it was scheduled and the vote Tuesday ended with a second cons...

HALIFAX - A Halifax man will receive preliminary compensation from the federal and provincial governments after spending almost 17 years in prison as the result of a wron...