Category Archives: Canada

PAIN COURT , Ont. - Ontario Premier Doug Ford vowed to stand up for the province’s farmers during a briefing on NAFTA talks in Washington this week, saying Tuesday that any version of the trade ...

COQUITLAM, B.C. - The RCMP is borrowing an idea from the United Kingdom by using a cut-out of a police officer to try and slow down traffic in Coquitlam, B.C. The Mounties have dubbed the life-sized f...

OTTAWA - Newly released statistics on opioid-related deaths in Canada through the first three months of the year suggest such fatalities are on the rise compared to each of the last two years. The lat...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says she is taking a personal interest in the possible poisoning of a Canadian member of the Russian protest group Pussy Riot. German doctors have b...

OTTAWA - After waiting nine years to make his case against the federal government, Abousfian Abdelrazik will have to stay patient a while longer. The Montreal man’s lawsuit over Canada’s r...

FREDERICTON - Election officials and student groups have launched a concerted effort to get students to vote in next week’s New Brunswick election - including flexible voting rules and the hirin...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s NDP says the emergence of a new private Halifax clinic that aims to reduce the strain on the public health-care system is “deeply troubling.” Unified Health b...

A Quebec trucker’s prolonged inattentiveness on an Ontario highway three years ago triggered a horrific crash that left four people dead and several others injured, a judge has ruled, finding th...

TORONTO - Ontario’s ombudsman is mulling whether to take another look at how provincial police deal with officers who suffer serious stress on the job and, in some cases, end up killing themselv...

Montreal Le Devoir’s international news coverage is about to get a boost in the form of a $100,000 annual donation over five years from tour operator Transat, which will cover travel and logisti...