Category Archives: Canada
Some key recommendations from review of police oversight in Ontario
TORONTO - A wide-ranging review of police oversight in Ontario has examined the province’s three oversight agencies - the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), the Office of the Independent Police ...
Apr 06, 2017
B.C. heads to polls May 9; NDP, Greens challenge four-term Liberal dynasty
VICTORIA - The British Columbian election pits a battle-tested Liberal dynasty against a gloves-off New Democratic Party fixated on shaking its loser mantle, while the upstart Green party pushes for a...
Apr 06, 2017
Ex-member of RCMP's Musical Ride settles lawsuit over 1980s assault, harassment
OTTAWA - A female Mountie who alleged she was sexually assaulted, harassed and dragged through horse manure while she was part of the RCMP’s famed Musical Ride in the 1980s has settled a long-st...
Apr 06, 2017
Long wait for results of fentanyl tests frustrates Ontario cops, health units
TORONTO - Staccato scenes play out in Jody McLennan’s mind on loop: her husband slumped in his chair, paramedics pumping his chest, his lifeless body splayed on their living room floor. Only fou...
Apr 06, 2017
Man charged after security breach at Toronto airport: police
TORONTO - A 58-year-old American man was charged Thursday after a security breach at Canada’s busiest airport that caused lengthy delays for a group of passengers. Peel Regional Police Const. Ma...
Apr 06, 2017
Newfoundland and Labrador budget highlights
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Highlights from the Newfoundland and Labrador’s new $8.1-billion budget presented Thursday: - Includes no new taxes or fees and slightly cuts spending by about $300,000....
Apr 06, 2017
'Not tracked as it is not permitted:' Manitoba stops tracking CFS wards in hotels
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government has stopped tracking the controversial use of hotel rooms to house kids seized by child-welfare workers. The former NDP government promised to stop putting up kids i...
Apr 06, 2017
Ontario man charged with trying to join a terror group denies allegations:lawyer
TORONTO - The lawyer for a man accused of leaving Canada to join Islamic State militants said Thursday that her client wasn’t involved in any such plan and intends to fight the charge in court. ...
Apr 06, 2017
Suzanne Legault says she doesn't want second term as information overseer
OTTAWA - Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault says she will step down when her current term expires at the end of June. Legault, who was first appointed in 2010, says she is prepared to stay in th...
Apr 06, 2017
Hungry polar bear airlifted away from Newfoundland village by helicopter
ST. BRENDAN’S, N.L. - Residents of a village in northeastern Newfoundland say they were shaken when a polar bear wandered close to their community, but wildlife officers were quick to tranquiliz...
Apr 06, 2017