Category Archives: Canada

WINNIPEG - A group that represents defence lawyers says some proposed laws aimed at cracking down on drivers distracted by hand-held electronic devices go too far. Manitoba and Ontario are two provinc...

Uber Technologies Inc. has suspended all of its self-driving vehicle testing - including a program in Toronto - after what is believed to be the first fatal pedestrian crash involving autonomous vehic...

SIX ROADS, N.B. - A dramatic, three-vehicle New Brunswick crash involving a logging truck has claimed the life of a Canton-des-Basques man. Tracadie RCMP say the man was driving on Highway 11 near Six...

OTTAWA - Canadian peacekeeping forces, which once numbered in the thousands, have dwindled to dozens in recent years, prompting the Liberal government to promise to re-engage in UN peace missions. On ...

BATTLEFORD, Sask. - A Saskatchewan farmer who was acquitted last month in the fatal shooting of a young Indigenous man is to be back in court April 16 to face gun charges. Gerald Stanley was charged i...

MONTREAL - The leader of the Coalition Avenir Quebec says he wants to form an energy alliance with Ontario and the Atlantic provinces if he becomes premier this fall. Francois Legault’s plan wou...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government is planning to introduce long-promised legislation Tuesday to strengthen controls on the sale, licensing and tracing of guns. The Liberals are bracing for political pus...

TORONTO - A surge in pedestrian deaths has Toronto’s mayor doubling down on a commitment to road safety amid criticism that he isn’t doing enough. New measures announced by John Tory on Mo...

OTTAWA - The House of Commons has unanimously adopted a motion blaming Russia for what it calls a despicable nerve gas attack in Britain. Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia’s Freeland’s mot...

VANCOUVER - Drivers in British Columbia should brace for record high gasoline prices this summer and the financial pain has the potential to spread across the country, says a petroleum industry analys...