Category Archives: Canada

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - The father of an Alberta man who was killed almost two years ago described in court Monday finding his son’s lifeless body and his two-year-old granddaughter missing. Derek S...

Toronto-area police are warning the public about the dangers of climbing construction cranes, noting that the practice has become a dangerous trend. Police in York Region say they’ve charged fou...

TORONTO - The chairman of Canada’s telecommunications regulator says he is not reapplying for the role, days before his five-year term - one marked by clashes with industry at a time of seismic ...

RED DEER, Alta. - A former Alberta politician has become one of the oldest Canadians to summit Mount Everest. John Oldring, who served as a member of the legislature from 1986 to 1993 after spending m...

OTTAWA - MPs in the Commons paused Monday to listen to an emotional speech by Ontario MP Arnold Chan, who spoke of his struggle with cancer while he appealed to his fellow parliamentarians for more ci...

OTTAWA - Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin is stepping down from the Supreme Court of Canada in December after 28 years on the court, including almost 18 years as chief. McLachlin, 74, is the first wom...

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - The crimes of a man who stabbed his daughter to death and smothered his two sons are so brutal he should be barred from escorted outings into the community, a Crown attorney sa...

HALIBURTON COUNTY, Ont. - More than 20 students from a Toronto middle school were sent to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries on Monday after two school buses collided on their way to a camp i...

HALIFAX - Alone in the mid-Atlantic, 73-year-old Mervyn Wheatley awoke early Friday to heaving swells threatening to capsize his weathered sailboat, Tamarind. He stumbled from his bunk in the dark, gr...

TORONTO - The Toronto Zoo will reopen Thursday after being closed by a month-long strike. Unionized workers at Canada’s largest zoo ratified a new four-year collective agreement on Sunday. The T...