Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - A non-Aboriginal history professor has been given the green light to teach a residential schools course at Mount Saint Vincent University, despite objections from some who say the course sho...

THUNDER BAY, Ont. - Ontario provincial police say a woman wanted following an Amber Alert is facing several charges. Police issued an Amber Alert on Monday after a boy was allegedly taken from a commu...

A Tim Hortons franchisee filed a $4-million lawsuit against the coffee-and-doughnut chain’s parent company after he says it refused to renew a licence for one of his stores in bad faith. “...

WINNIPEG - One of the country’s leading experts says Manitoba needs to find the political will to bring in safe injection sites. Dr. M.J. Milloy says multiple studies have shown safe consumption...

CALGARY - Alberta’s highest court has ruled that a class-action lawsuit against the Western Hockey League can proceed with the players involved. The suit contends that players have been paid les...

MONTAGUE, P.E.I. - Canadian rugby associations, and some of the sport’s most prominent players, are expressing condolences to the family of a P.E.I. high school athlete who died after what one e...

MONTREAL - A Quebec man facing four years in a Cuban jail after a boating accident killed a fellow Canadian tourist last July is suing travel company Sunwing for damages. Lawyers representing Toufik B...

MONTREAL - Air Canada could face a boycott from Taiwanese travellers after the airline joined a growing list of air carriers that have reportedly bowed to Chinese pressure by listing the capital of Ta...

MONTREAL - The immigration plan of the Coalition Avenir Quebec, the party leading in the polls less than five months away from the provincial election, reportedly suggests Ottawa expel newcomers who f...

OTTAWA - Chronic low income among so-called “family-class” immigrants is a concern that needs to be addressed not just for humanitarian reasons, but also to help sustain the Canadian econo...