Category Archives: Canada

Quebec City police have launched a criminal investigation into the burning of a Hydro-Quebec pole during the G7 summit. The alleged sabotage on June 9 disrupted part of the wireless communication netw...

Calgary police have charged a man after a lengthy investigation led to the discovery of more than $1 million in fake transit passes. The year-long investigation involved nine search warrants and event...

HALIFAX - A Halifax university has become the first in Nova Scotia to offer its students free menstrual products, part of a national movement that has been gaining steam among student leaders. Nikki J...

HALIFAX - Atlantic Canada’s largest city has a new, and highly unlikely, tropical flavour. Nine palm trees have been planted in four Halifax parks, although the jury is out on whether they can s...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s privacy commissioner says she’s shocked by how a grocery-store pharmacist was able to snoop into the electronic personal health information of dozens of people she ...

TORONTO - A lawyer for former Toronto Blue Jay Roberto Osuna, who is charged with assault, took issue Wednesday with recent comments from the general manager of his client’s new team, the Housto...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister has made major changes to his cabinet roughly midway through his mandate, swapping ministers in Health, Finance and other high-profile portfolios. Pallister...

OTTAWA - The federal government is scaling back its carbon pricing plan for heavy industrial emitters in a bid to cut greenhouse gas production without creating an incentive for companies to simply up...

RED DEER, Alta. - RCMP say a minivan containing a man’s body that was stolen from a funeral home in Red Deer, Alta., has been recovered. Police say the body was still in the back of the vehicle ...

TORONTO - Legal actions against the Soulpepper Theatre Company and its co-founder, Albert Schultz, over sexual-harassment allegations have been “resolved,” representatives said Wednesday. ...