Category Archives: Canada

EDMONTON - Alberta is to allow turban-wearing Sikhs to ride motorcycles without helmets. The exemption to the province’s Traffic Safety Act that will apply to adult motorcycle drivers and passen...

TORONTO - An Ontario man who killed his former lover and burned her body in an animal incinerator has filed an appeal, arguing his first-degree murder conviction was unreasonable and the life sentence...

BURNABY, B.C. - Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his caucus is united behind him, despite recent discord over his decision to punish a veteran member of Parliament. After a backlash, Singh revers...

HALIFAX - A group of black janitors who were fired after they claimed they were victims of racial discrimination have found new jobs, but supporters continue to draw attention to their situation. Nova...

TORONTO - John Gibbons never had to worry much when Roy Halladay was on the mound. Until it came time to take his star pitcher out the game, anyway. Gibbons, who managed the late Halladay from 2004 to...

HALIFAX - In modern-day Halifax, pirates try to settle their spats with lawsuits, not swords. But two competing groups of grown men both calling themselves the “Pirates of Halifax” have fa...

HALIFAX - A male Acadia University student accused of sexually assaulting a female student has failed in his bid to stop the school’s Equity Office from investigating the allegation. In a decisi...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government is facing pressure on several fronts to lead an international ban on the use of autonomous weapons, the so-called “killer robots” that some fear could resul...

HALIFAX - Although a cost is yet to be attached to a new effluent treatment facility for the Northern Pulp mill, Nova Scotia’s infrastructure minister said Thursday that it’s unlikely prov...

TORONTO - A photo of a hockey player breastfeeding her baby between periods has riled social media, and that uproar has some lactation experts bemoaning how such a natural act continues to be sexualiz...