Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - A Toronto-area police officer has won over some fans with an impromptu rap performance that is gaining online popularity. York Regional police Const. Amy Oliver was working a paid-duty secur...

OTTAWA - Quotes about Canada’s new, feminist foreign aid policy announced Friday: “Focusing Canada's international assistance on the full empowerment of women and girls is the most effecti...

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia man allegedly used his Facebook account to express support of “lone wolves” who committed violent terror attacks in the name of the Islamic State of Iraq and...

DARTMOUTH, N.S. - Halifax police say they have no suspects in the killing of an 18-year-old woman found dying on a dark walkway this week. Spokeswoman Melissa MacInnis says investigators are asking fo...

EDMONTON - Alberta’s Opposition leader says the government is attempting to whitewash the findings of two probes into the Fort McMurray wildfire disaster. Brian Jean, of the Wildrose party, says...

MONTREAL - Fraud cases resume later this month against several former SNC-Lavalin executives charged in relation to the company’s contract to build a $1.3-billion Montreal hospital, nearly five ...

EDMONTON - Alberta RCMP say three girls endured years of horrific sexual abuse and psychological imprisonment, allegedly at the hands of their father, before he was arrested and charged with 23 offenc...

NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Bill Cosby says he apologized to the family of the woman he is accused of drugging and assaulting because he was afraid her mother thought he was “a dirty old man,” accor...

TORONTO - Viv Jean was initially wary of “Come From Away.” The New Yorker grew up on the East Coast close to the Big Apple, so 9/11 is a sensitive subject. The prospect of a stage show ins...

FREDERICTON - An Ontario man has been sentenced in New Brunswick to three months in jail for illegally trafficking in threatened iguanas. Grigori Zaharov and a companion were intercepted by Canada Bor...