Category Archives: Canada

Quebec cabinet minister Kathleen Weil has been cited for contempt of the legislature for releasing the entire details of a bill to reporters before it was even tabled in the national assembly. In his ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged to make gender equality a key focus of the G7 summit, but some women’s rights advocates are lamenting a shortage of concrete commitments to action....

SASKATOON - The mother of a six-year-old girl bitten by a Saskatoon police dog says she doesn’t want the animal to be put down. Leslie Welder’s daughter, Autumn Clifford, was home outside ...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia is failing to adequately screen staff caring for children and youth inside group homes, exposing vulnerable young people to unacceptable risk and harm, says the province&#...

MONTREAL - One of the women sexually assaulted by former ski coach Bertrand Charest said she was “super-relieved” after Quebec’s national assembly adopted a motion Tuesday aimed at m...

MONTREAL - U.S. President Donald Trump’s sharp comments against Canada over trade are just a blip in an otherwise unbreakable, long-standing friendship, say some Americans living in the northeas...

BANFF, Alta. - The Alberta resort town of Banff has banned smoking or vaping cannabis in public places once it becomes legal. Council has decided to limit the use of marijuana to private property in t...

VICTORIA - A British Columbia non-profit is the first organization in North America to start collecting some of the toughest plastics to recycle, including potato chip bags and zipper-lock sandwich po...

HAMILTON - The second-degree murder trial of a white homeowner charged with gunning down an Indigenous man who was allegedly stealing his 15-year-old pickup truck got underway Tuesday under close watc...

WINNIPEG - There were 20 allegations of sexual harassment and hundreds of accusations of other misconduct among Manitoba civil servants in the last fiscal year, the Progressive Conservative government...