Category Archives: Canada

VANCOUVER - Provinces have brought in new procedures to speed up the justice system following last year’s Supreme Court of Canada ruling in the Jordan case, which set tight time limits for trial...

VANCOUVER - Barrett Jordan was arrested in December 2008 for his alleged involvement in a dial-a-dope operation in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland. Nine years later, he is at the centre of the...

OTTAWA - They did not see it coming, but they knew that something likely would derail their plans. More than a year ago, Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould convened a meeting of people engaged in t...

MONTREAL - Dannick Lessard feels victimized by the justice system. In October 2012, the Quebec man took nine bullets outside a bar in an attempt on his life. Earlier this year, his alleged attacker, w...

VANCOUVER - More than 200 criminal cases across the country have been tossed due to unreasonable delays since the Supreme Court of Canada’s landmark Jordan decision one year ago, court data show...

TORONTO - Home sales in the Greater Toronto Area plunged 37.3 per cent last month compared with a year ago, the largest drop in eight years, the city’s real estate board said Thursday following ...

The bickering didn’t start until nearly 40 years of marriage. But it soon escalated so much that Doug and Bonnie Main wondered if they’d be married much longer. “She’d put some...

MONTREAL - The Greater Montreal Real Estate Board says area home sales increased by 10 per cent in June, driven by a hot condo market. There were 3,952 properties sold last month, the highest level fo...

HALIFAX - Forestry experts in Atlantic Canada are getting ready for the arrival of a new, invasive species that has destroyed millions of ash trees in other parts of Canada. The Emerald Ash Borer is a...

OTTAWA - China fears cyberattacks because it is creating cutting-edge technology that others will want to steal, says its envoy to Canada, a rebuttal of the widely held view that the country is a lead...