Category Archives: Canada

Five stories in the news for Friday, Aug. 24 --- FORD BACKS SCHEER AT TORY CONVENTION Ontario Premier Doug Ford threw his political weight behind federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer during a spe...

OTTAWA - A number of supporters who backed Maxime Bernier’s oh-so-close bid for the Conservative leadership say they want nothing to do with his plan to start a new party - but one source says t...

OTTAWA - Peter Harder, the Liberal government’s representative in the Senate, has rebuffed a call to testify next month in a Montreal man’s lawsuit over his lengthy detention in Sudan. Har...

HUMBOLDT, Sask. - A small Saskatchewan city devastated by a fatal bus crash involving its junior hockey team welcomed a trophy Friday that fans no doubt hoped would one day be hoisted by one of their ...

HALIFAX - After a bombshell day for the Conservative party, many members attending the annual Tory convention in Halifax expressed quiet relief on Thursday that the long-expected divorce of maverick M...

NANAIMO, B.C. - Conservatives, from leader Andrew Scheer on down, are predicting that Maxime Bernier’s decision to quit their party and start his own will end up helping Justin Trudeau’s L...

HALIFAX - Ontario Premier Doug Ford threw his political weight behind federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer during an impassioned speech clearly aimed at rallying the troops at the national Conser...

SURREY, B.C. - A B.C. RCMP officer has been charged with a sex crime involving a minor. The BC Prosecution Service says criminal charges were sworn against Ridge Meadows RCMP Const. Gregory Scott Bakk...

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - Four players from the University of Lethbridge women’s hockey team are suing the school, its sports director and the team’s coach. A statement of claim filed on Tuesday...

OTTAWA - Maxime Bernier showed the country Thursday why his self-assigned nickname “Mad Max” is more than just a little apt. The 55-year-old veteran MP tore a strip off Andrew Scheer’...