Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The Liberal government lifted the veil on what it billed Tuesday as a bold plan to strike a blow against poverty across Canada by the end of the next decade - but the plan is absent any new s...

HALIFAX - The Archbishop of Halifax says the Roman Catholic church is in crisis and there is an urgent need for change. Archbishop Anthony Mancini has condemned new reports of sexual abuse by priests,...

OTTAWA - Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould says she will look at possible changes to a law forbidding jurors from talking about closed-door deliberations - a secrecy provision that prevents stress...

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Court of Appeal has ordered a new trial for the former leader of a religious sect who was acquitted of taking a 15-year-old girl across the U.S. border for a sexual pu...

MONTREAL - A Quebec coroner says a man’s death last December was caused by a combination of cold medication and four cans of a sugary high-alcohol drink. Pierre Parent, 30, drank two cans of Fou...

MONTREAL - A man who was taken on a so-called starlight tour by two Montreal police officers in May 2012 has settled with the city for $25,000, but expressed disappointment the city dismissed his prop...

TORONTO - The Ontario government is standing by its controversial decision to cut the size of Toronto’s council despite a looming legal challenge from the city, saying it will be implementing th...

MELFORT, Sask. - The case of a truck driver charged in the fatal Humboldt Broncos bus crash has been adjourned until October. Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, 29, is charged with 16 counts of dangerous driving c...

VANCOUVER - Premier John Horgan says successive B.C. governments have budgeted “laughable” amounts of money to fight wildfires that are becoming all too common through the ravages of clima...

MILESTONE, Sask. - Volunteers have rallied to harvest the large wheat crop of a deceased Saskatchewan farmer who is being remembered as a pillar of his community. Bryan Williams, who farmed in the Mil...