Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - More than 100 police officers targeted residences and vehicles belonging to alleged members of organized crime on Tuesday, as well as a Hells Angels bunker south of Montreal. The raids were...

Five tweens and teens have been charged with threatening schools on social media, Ontario’s provincial police said Tuesday as they reported a “spike” in online threats following a de...

HEARTS DELIGHT, N.L. - A Canadian Coast Guard vessel was unable to help a group of dolphins trapped by ice in a Newfoundland harbour Tuesday. Officials say heavy ice in Heart’s Delight has cut o...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government has proposed strict new rules to govern harassment in federal workplaces - including on Parliament Hill - but political staffers are split on whether the changes will m...

Six stories in the news for Tuesday, March 20 --- FIREARMS LEGISLATION COMING TODAY The federal Liberals are set to tighten restrictions on the sale of guns under proposed legislation to be introduced...

OTTAWA - The federal government tabled a proposed new bill Tuesday to tighten the sale and tracking of firearms, only to find itself under attack from both sides: gun owners wary of burdensome regulat...

MONTREAL - A man whose son has been missing for more than a week desperately wants to meet the woman who told Montreal police she saw a boy matching his description. Frederic Kouakou says he and his w...

FREDERICTON - A new report says if Atlantic Canada wants to solve its economic and demographic problems, it must become more than a stopover for immigrants. The report entitled “The People Imper...

MONTREAL - A Montreal suburb has adopted a bylaw that bans all smoking in public places in what is believed to be a first in Canada. Hampstead city council adopted the legislation Monday night by a vo...

TORONTO - Doug Ford told a group of nearly 2,000 supporters that he plans to “take back this province” at his first major event since he was made leader of the Progressive Conservative par...