Category Archives: Canada

WINNIPEG - The federal government has taken another step in transferring control over Indigenous health programs to First Nations. Indigenous Services Minister Jane Philpott announced $68 million over...

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. - Police searched into the night for two armed men following a daytime shooting in St. Catharines, Ont., on Thursday that sent three people to hospital, two of them in life-threat...

COQUITLAM, B.C. - A man with schizophrenia accused of fatally stabbing a 13-year-old girl inside a high school in Abbotsford, B.C., says he’s eager to face the charges against him but he still h...

MONTREAL - Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques says the biggest part of his preparation as he gets ready to leave Dec. 20 for a visit to the International Space Station is making sure his family is...

An Ontario city that’s frequently been home to large, rowdy student parties is enlisting a local university and the court system in an effort to curb public drunkenness. The mayor of Kingston, O...

OTTAWA - Jagmeet Singh won’t allow scorned MP Erin Weir to run as a New Democrat in the next election - a decision that has caused a rupture between the NDP leader and the party’s long-sta...

OTTAWA - Former NHL star Dave (Tiger) Williams is set to stand trial next year on sexual assault and assault charges over an alleged incident on a military morale-boosting trip last December. A lawyer...

WINNIPEG - A woman was held captive, tortured and forced to work as an escort in a case Winnipeg police say shows the damaging effects of human trafficking. “She was locked in a full-size freeze...

OTTAWA - The federal government has yet to fill nearly five dozen judicial vacancies, a rising figure the Liberals say is partly a result of government spending to expand the number of judges nationwi...

VANCOUVER - Centuries-old artifacts from the Pacific northwest coast are among items lost in the recent fire that destroyed the National Museum of Brazil, but a museum curator in Vancouver says the No...