Category Archives: Canada

Nine stories in the news for Thursday, May 18 --- CANADA BACKS CALL FOR MAGNITSKY ACT Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says the government has agreed to create a so-called Magnitsky Act to e...

MEADOW LAKE, Sask. - A teen gunman who killed four people at a home and in a school in northern Saskatchewan told police he had regrets about the shooting. Dayne and Drayden Fontaine were killed at th...

Ottawa is completely within its rights to impose a carbon tax on any province because protecting the environment falls under federal jurisdiction, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said Thursday....

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government has hired a former top public servant to study options for more robust oversight of Canada’s border agency - the latest sign the agency could soon have new people...

TORONTO - Canada’s money-laundering watchdog is studying the use of crowdfunding platforms by suspected terrorists and says in an internal study that the reporting protocol poses a “signif...

OTTAWA - Celebrity businessman Kevin O’Leary dropped out of the Conservative leadership race and pledged to back Quebec MP Maxime Bernier’s campaign all the way to decision day, but the du...

CALGARY - A judge has rejected a Calgary man’s argument that he acted in self-defence after years of domestic abuse when he strangled his wife and entombed her body in their basement. Justice Ro...

CALGARY - A Polish man’s effort to circumnavigate the globe on two wheels came to a screeching halt when his scooter was struck by a car on the TransCanada Highway east of Calgary. Piotr Glowack...

CALGARY - The annual reveal of new foods coming to the Calgary Stampede has been released, and the list includes both the sickeningly sweet and the simply weird. The Unicorn White Hot Chocolate offers...

MONTREAL - Several thousand police officers held a march in Montreal during the city’s 375 birth celebrations on Wednesday to draw attention to the fact they’ve been without a contract for...