Category Archives: Canada

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, June 15 --- HEARING TOLD LA LOCHE SHOOTER HAS PTSD: A psychiatrist says a teenager who killed four people in the northern Saskatchewan community of La Loche...

RAYMOND, Alta. - A man and a woman are in custody and several firearms have been seized after a wild police chase through southern Alberta that involved gunfire and several crashes. RCMP in Raymond sa...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Bill Morneau issued a veiled warning Thursday that the Trudeau government won’t accept Senate changes to his budget bill - especially not carving out provisions dealing...

TORONTO - Home Capital Group, the lender that appeared at risk of collapse earlier this year, looks to have put some of its troubles behind it, easing fears it could trigger a real estate slump and br...

CALGARY - A Calgary man accused of filming women without their knowledge and posting their images to a Twitter account called “Canada Creep” has been granted bail. James Robert Williamson,...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government will press ahead with plans for a weekly prime minister’s question period, but is giving up trying to codify it in the formal House of Commons rules. Instead, Tru...

VANCOUVER - A former RCMP employee who alleges she was sexually assaulted by a now-retired inspector in a locked washroom at their Vancouver workplace says she’s been diagnosed with post-traumat...

MONTREAL - A living piece of Montreal history was relegated to the past on Thursday as the oldest urban stable in the city - some say in the country - was finally torn down. The stable at the Griffint...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government is planning to spend billions more on the navy’s four wayward submarines to keep them operating into the 2030s. The plan to extend the lives of the troubled vesse...

OTTAWA - The federal government is trying to make it easier to provide interim protection to marine areas, part of a campaign promise to more than double the amount of protected marine areas by the en...