Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s independent police watchdog is investigating a possible case of excessive use of force by Halifax Regional Police officers during an arrest in late April. The province...

OTTAWA - Federal New Democrats have confidence in the voting system they have in place for their leadership race as mud continues to fly over the recently concluded Conservative campaign. “The v...

HARBOUR BRETON, N.L. - For Johnaton Poulain, it’s like living in the middle of an Alfred Hitchcock movie. The rattled Newfoundlander has endured weeks of torment by a pair of ravens that have be...

VAUGHAN, Ont. - A cane fight that broke out between two elderly women in a parking lot north of Toronto resulted in police being called to break up the scuffle. York regional police say they were call...

RED DEER, Alta. - A school bus driver is facing drunk driving charges after a bus hit a tree in Red Deer, Alta. RCMP say it happened Monday afternoon in the Vanier Woods neighbourhood. A witness told ...

OTTAWA - The federal finance minister came to the defence Tuesday of the Liberals’ promised, $35-billion infrastructure bank, insisting it would create less risk for taxpayers than if the govern...

SURREY, B.C. - Drug users will start injecting their own heroin or other illicit substances at a new supervised injection site opening this week in Surrey, B.C., in an effort to curb a crisis in overd...

OTTAWA - Canada has eight months to put forward a detailed plan to improve the health of its largest national park or risk having the United Nations add it to a list of world heritage sites considered...

VANCOUVER - A new report from a Vancouver credit union says home buyers on British Columbia’s southern coast can no longer turn to the suburbs to find more affordable housing. Vancity tracked th...

An Ontario man who was homeless for years has donated $10,000 to a shelter that supported him after receiving compensation from a residential school settlement. The act of kindness has triggered a sle...