Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The finance minister would like to see billions in new federal infrastructure money flow faster to provinces and cities, but Bill Morneau says that moving too fast would risk wasting money. T...

OTTAWA - It’s been dubbed the innovation-and-skills budget, the feminist budget, the do-nothing budget, the do-it-later budget, the wait-and-see budget. Whether or not you think the 278-page emp...

OTTAWA - Human remains found in a French field have been confirmed as being those of a Canadian soldier from Calgary who died in the First World War. The Department of National Defence says Sgt. James...

OTTAWA - Veterans Affairs Minister Kent Hehr has all but ruled out a return to the old way injured veterans received pensions, setting up a potentially vicious fight with some of those hurt in uniform...

MONTREAL - A former Montreal politician and ex-police officer who pleaded guilty to sexually touching a minor has been sentenced to six months behind bars. Gilles Deguire’s sentence also include...

EDMONTON - A lawyer with a group representing two Alberta private schools says they’re following the law on gay-straight alliances. Education Minister David Eggen on Thursday ordered Harvest Bap...

OTTAWA - The Governor General’s office says a retired soldier who was court-martialled for wearing Afghanistan and Somalia medals and parachute wings he wasn’t entitled to at a Remembrance...

WINNIPEG - A judge says DNA evidence will be allowed at the retrial of a man accused of killing a teenage girl more than three decades ago. Mark Grant is charged with second-degree murder in the death...

CRANBROOK, B.C. - A British Columbia man is offering a cautionary tale after surviving an avalanche he says tossed him more than a kilometre down a mountain in just 30 seconds. Twenty-five-year-old Ca...

UCLUELET, B.C. - A popular beach along the West Coast of Vancouver Island has been closed as a wolf prowls in the area of the national park. Parks Canada says its staff are trying to restore a balance...