Category Archives: Canada

The first sign that something was afoot in the rural Ontario community of Clearview came about a year ago, when Mayor Doug Measures found out that a local farm was registered to the Crown months after...

OTTAWA - As mass protests in Iran raise hopes that the regime in Tehran might soon topple, human rights activists are calling on the RCMP to collect reports on possible major crimes committed there by...

OTTAWA - Cosmetics company Este Lauder has been fined $750,000 after federal agents found it was using "forever chemicals" in some of its eyeliner products. The company has pleaded guilty to two count...

OTTAWA - Canadians have left more than $2 billion on the table by not cashing millions of paper cheques mailed out by the federal government, documents tabled recently in Parliament say. The data says...

MONTREAL - Prosecutors say two teens apprehended last week in connection with a double homicide in a First Nations community in northern Quebec are facing first-degree murder charges. A spokeswoman fo...

OTTAWA - The federal government's plan to increase the GST credit and offer a one-time payment to Canadians will cost Ottawa an estimated $12.4 billion over five years. The Office of the Parliamentary...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... What to expect as businessman Frank Stronach stands trial on sexual assault charges The man long touted as one...

HALIFAX - Canada's famous prognosticating rodents are predicting an early spring. Wiarton Willie, in Bruce County, Ont., and Fred la Marmotte, the famous groundhog in Quebec's Gaspsie region reportedl...

TORONTO - The man long touted as one of Canada's great success stories is set to stand trial in Toronto this week, as the first of two cases accusing Frank Stronach of sexual offences against several ...

SURREY - Police in Surrey, B.C., arrested three men on Sunday after early morning gunfire at a home, believed to be yet another example of extortion-related shootings that have plagued the city in rec...