Category Archives: Canada

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A 31-year-old inmate who died in a Newfoundland and Labrador prison last weekend wrote a letter to the province’s Human Rights Commission days before his death, appealin...

HUDSON BAY, Sask. - Via Rail Canada says two locomotives and a baggage car on a train going from Winnipeg to The Pas in northern Manitoba derailed overnight in a remote area of east-central Saskatchew...

HALIFAX - The Crown says it will oppose the release of a man charged with aggravated sexual assault and choking to overcome resistance after a woman said she was attacked in a home in Halifax. Sem Pau...

OTTAWA - A Salvadoran woman and her two daughters who fled their home country after allegedly suffering extortion and rape at the hands of members of the notorious MS-13 gang are among several parties...

Eight stories in the news for Thursday, July 5 --- PROBE NEEDED INTO SAUDI USE OF CANADIAN ARMS, GROUPS SAY Some of Canada’s most prominent human rights and arms-control groups are demanding the...

CALGARY - Six years after it all began, Filipe Masetti Leite is still in the saddle and planning a new adventure. Leite, 31, who immigrated to Canada from Brazil when he was a teenager, began his orig...

LAVAL, Que. - Former Quebec construction mogul Tony Accurso received a four-year prison term on Thursday following his conviction on fraud and corruption charges. A jury recently found Accurso guilty ...

TORONTO - A raised bit of concrete on a sidewalk. An icy patch on the road. A misstep on the stairs at home. All of these can lead to accidental falls - landing a person not only on the ground, but of...

OTTAWA - Some of Canada’s most prominent human rights and arms-control groups are demanding the Trudeau government launch an independent investigation into reports Saudi Arabian forces used Cana...

CALGARY - It has been more than five months since Ryan Straschnitzki was together with his family in his hometown of Airdrie, Alta. Straschnitzki, 19, was paralyzed from the chest down April 6 in a co...