Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The Liberal government’s sweeping national security bill has cleared a key legislative hurdle despite the concerns of the two main opposition parties. MPs voted 168 to 125 Monday to app...

OTTAWA - The political aide to Canada’s environment minister says the federal government is looking to reduce its use of plastic as it pursues a national strategy to curb Canada’s addictio...

OTTAWA - The federal government’s financial adviser has raised the possibility of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board becoming involved in the Trans Mountain pipeline project but there̵...

LONGUEUIL, Que. - A trial began Monday for a Quebec provincial police officer in the death of a young boy more than four years ago. Patrick Ouellet is charged with one count of dangerous driving causi...

BURNABY, B.C. - An RCMP officer laughed with a police dispatcher about a call reporting six gunshot sounds in a quiet neighbourhood in rural British Columbia in 2008, not realizing that a woman lay dy...

TORONTO - One of the country’s foremost railway companies will have to ensure cars can use a bridge in Thunder Bay, Ont., under terms of an agreement signed more than a century ago, Ontario̵...

VANCOUVER - An apartment fire in North Vancouver has killed two people and sent a dozen to hospital for treatment of various injuries. The victims were trapped when the blaze tore through one of four ...

EDMONTON - It’s closing time for Alberta’s homegrown subsidy designed to help its beer brewers. Finance Minister Joe Ceci says the province is changing the program after an appeal panel ru...

A sexual assault complainant who testified against her alleged attacker — but then simply refused to finish cross-examination — has presented a rare quandary for the justice system. The ma...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - A Nunavut politician says the territory isn’t doing enough to protect children under the practice of custom adoption. “It’s wide open,” said Cathy Towtongie,...