Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The Royal Canadian Air Force is hoping to pull the trigger on the purchase of new armed drones within six years after spending nearly two decades weighing different options. The Canadian Forc...

WASHINGTON - The NAFTA-bashing president of the United States used his state of the union speech Tuesday to urge a divided, combative Congress to come together to ratify a continental trade pact he...

OTTAWA - New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs says his latest meeting with the prime minister produced little or no progress on major issues facing his province. Higgs met with Justin Trudeau on Tuesday...

ALMA, Que. - Provincial police say a girl in a Quebec elementary school was stabbed Tuesday afternoon during a dispute with a schoolmate. Police spokesman Hugues Beaulieu said there was an altercation...

TORONTO - When Bruce McArthur chose to kill, he looked to the margins of society to find his prey. While all eight of the men he admitted murdering had ties to Toronto’s gay community, most of t...

OTTAWA - Canada’s border-security minister says there is a backlog in the screening of asylum seekers, including those who are considered irregular border-crossers walking into the country from ...

MONTREAL - Michel Cadotte, on trial for second-degree murder in the death of his ailing wife, said Tuesday he fully understood what he was doing when he smothered her with a pillow. Under cross-examin...

OTTAWA - Two major Canadian unions’ support for Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro is rooted in ignorance of the country’s struggle for freedom and the plight of its downtrodden and abused w...

MONTREAL - Quebec’s Education Department admitted Tuesday it began surveying schools months ago about how many employees wear religious symbols on the job. The Canadian Press obtained a copy of ...

OTTAWA - New ideas for federal gun-control rules will likely come with in weeks, says the minister responsible for devising them. Since August, Bill Blair has been studying ways to get handguns and as...