Category Archives: Canada

MONCTON, N.B. - A 36-year-old New Brunswick man has been sentenced to a year in jail for ramming his car into a school and threatening to kill the staff and students. Mathieu Carroll was ordered to se...

VANCOUVER - Premier John Horgan says he plans to intensify efforts to find new markets for B.C. wine, which was already being done before Alberta’s ban over the Trans Mountain pipeline. Horgan s...

TORONTO - John Valorzi, a tough-talking, big-hearted 32-year veteran of The Canadian Press whose boundless enthusiasm, fearsome work ethic and exacting standards helped to shape an entire generation o...

Environmentalists say Ontario’s threatened boreal caribou will be put at greater risk if the province goes ahead with a proposal to give the forestry industry a two-year extension to exemptions ...

VANCOUVER - The chief justice of British Columbia’s Supreme Court says he is frustrated by the federal government’s “failure” to appoint judges, and is calling on Ottawa to urg...

OTTAWA - Changes to Canada’s arms export policy to prevent weapons from falling into the hands of human rights abusers won’t mean an end to a controversial contract with Saudi Arabia, Fore...

HALIFAX - A former university groundskeeper accused of sexually assaulting two Halifax women in the past five months is now facing a third sexual assault charge. Halifax police said Thursday Mathew Al...

OTTAWA - The federal government has not been able to determine with any certainty that Canadian-made light-armoured vehicles sold to Saudi Arabia were used by that country to suppress the Shiite minor...

Montreal actor Steve Nash doesn’t have any law enforcement training but he plays the role well enough to pull it off onscreen. Nash says he’s become typecast for these types of roles and h...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia will gradually hike its minimum hourly wage to get to $15.20 by June 2021. It’s a decision criticized by both labour and business groups. “We believe that 2021...