Category Archives: Canada

Four stories in the news for Tuesday, Dec. 4 --- VAN ATTACK CASE EXPECTED IN COURT The case of a man accused of killing 10 people in a van attack in northern Toronto returns to court today. Alek Minas...

BATTLEFORD, Sask. - A coroner’s inquest into a fatal shooting of a driver by RCMP in Saskatchewan has heard that a passenger in the vehicle told investigators the man wanted to die and pretended...

OTTAWA - The Conservatives easily hung onto a long-time Tory fiefdom Monday, scoring a convincing victory in a federal byelection held in eastern Ontario. With all polls reporting in Leeds-Grenville-T...

TOFINO, B.C. - A British Columbia wildlife refuge says staff are upset and shocked after a bear cub that was rescued near his mother’s dead body this spring died unexpectedly in his enclosure. T...

OTTAWA - Gun-control activists pressed senators Monday to move more quickly on firearms legislation, a few days before the 29th anniversary of the Ecole Polytechnique massacre that left 14 women dead ...

MONTREAL - One of the doctors who worked the boxing match Saturday night in Quebec City that left Adonis Stevenson hospitalized in an induced coma said he and his colleagues are at a loss to medically...

Nearly half of southern British Columbia’s chinook salmon populations are in decline, according to a science committee that monitors the health of wildlife populations. The Committee on the Stat...

OTTAWA - The Canadian military is looking to contract out some maintenance work on the country’s aging CF-18 fighter jets as well as training to help address a shortage of experienced technician...

HALIFAX - The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 in Halifax has removed a story on its website about two Austrian immigrants, saying sharing the personal memoir was “a mistake.” Spo...

OTTAWA - The RCMP should have alerted Justin Trudeau’s protective detail that Jaspal Atwal - a man with a serious criminal record and a history of violence - might turn up during the prime minis...