Category Archives: Canada

Trump's use of troops in D.C. is an alarming preview of militarized policing: experts
WASHINGTON - On a sultry early September afternoon in Washington, D.C., tourists pulling suitcases and office workers rushing between meetings dodged past dozens of National Guard troops standing at t...
Sep 06, 2025

Former Canadiens star goaltender Ken Dryden dies of cancer at age 78
MONTREAL - Ken Dryden, the Hall of Fame goaltender whose long resume in and out of hockey included six Stanley Cup victories and helping backstop Canada's generation-defining victory at the 1972 Summi...
Sep 05, 2025

Residents of N.W.T. community being allowed home after weeklong wildfire evacuation
WHAT - Residents of a First Nation community in the Northwest Territories are set to return home just over a week after being forced to flee because of a wildfire. The Community Government of Whati sa...
Sep 05, 2025

Musqueam and City of Richmond file notices of appeal after Cowichan Tribes ruling
VANCOUVER - The Musqueam Indian Band and the City of Richmond each say they are appealing the recent B.C. Supreme Court decision that found another First Nation government holds Aboriginal title for l...
Sep 05, 2025

Margaret Atwood takes aim at Alberta's school library books ban with satirical story
EDMONTON - Margaret Atwood is taking aim at Alberta's controversial ban on school library books containing sexual content with a new, satirical short story after the famed author's novel "The Handmaid...
Sep 05, 2025

Bail decision next week for alleged smugglers arrested at Quebec-U.S. border
Three men charged with human smuggling after 44 migrants were found crammed inside a cube van in southern Quebec will find out next week if they'll be granted bail. Lawyers for Ogulcan Mersin, Dogan A...
Sep 05, 2025

Filipino BC calls for more support responding to 'social disaster' of festival attack
VANCOUVER - The organizer of the Vancouver street festival where 11 people were killed in a vehicle-ramming attack last spring says the tragedy continues to reverberate through the community, and it n...
Sep 05, 2025

Ambulance service liable after man dies of nut allergy after hospital transfer delay
MONTREAL - A Quebec ambulance service is on the hook for $442,000 in damages for not following protocols, leading to the death of an 18-year-old man after a reaction to a nut allergy. Urgences-sant wa...
Sep 05, 2025

B.C. ostrich farm seeks another stay of cull order as it pursues high court hearing
OTTAWA - The British Columbia ostrich farm in a months-long legal battle to stop the Canadian Food Inspection Agency from destroying hundreds of its birds wants to further delay the cull as it seeks a...
Sep 05, 2025

Lawsuit alleges 2006 sexual assault by acclaimed Indigenous artist Norval Morrisseau
VANCOUVER - The estate of acclaimed Indigenous artist Norval Morrisseau is being sued in British Columbia by a fellow painter who says Morrisseau sexually assaulted him in 2006. A lawyer for the estat...
Sep 05, 2025