Category Archives: Canada

FLINT, Mich. - The case of a Canadian man charged with stabbing a police officer at a Michigan airport isn’t on a fast track. A judge agreed Friday to extend important deadlines while federal in...

OTTAWA - MPs have amended the government’s much-criticized Access to Information bill by placing a check on plans to give federal agencies the power to refuse to process access requests. Members...

COOKSTOWN, Ont. - Ontario Provincial Police have identified one of the three victims of last week’s fiery pileup on a highway north of Toronto. Sgt. Kerry Schmidt says 37-year-old Benjamin Dunn ...

TORONTO - An Ontario backbench member of Parliament tabled a bill Monday to amend Canada’s insolvency laws so they offer more protections to pension plans, post-retirement benefits and severance...

TORONTO - Murray Koffler, the founder of Shoppers Drug Mart, has died at the age of 93, according to Loblaw Companies Ltd. Toronto-born Koffler was a pharmacist when he founded Shoppers in 1962. The c...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister signalled Monday that the province’s private sector will be involved in the distribution of marijuana when recreational use is legalized next July. Pa...

Highlights from the news file for Monday, Nov. 6 --- CANADA SEEKING TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP CHANGES IN 3 YEARS: Canadian negotiators are pushing for three key changes to the original Trans-Pacific P...

DARTMOUTH, N.S. - It’s 3:30 on a Friday afternoon after a busy lunch rush that filled a 60-seat restaurant in downtown Dartmouth. Standing behind The Canteen’s bar, chef and co-owner Renee...

WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg school trustee wants to clarify rules about when and how students can have their cellphones confiscated and searched. Mark Wasyliw says he wants to set limits and establish a typ...

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - A British Columbia police officer is being remembered as a “hero” after he died Monday in an exchange of gunfire with a man accused of shooting at people in a parking lo...