Category Archives: Canada

WINNIPEG - A Manitoba politician left paralyzed from the neck down by a highway collision is pushing for a law that would make all people in the province an organ donor unless they opted out. Steven F...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says that more women are in leadership roles in the public sector where pay equity is the law than in the private sector, where similar rules don’t apply. The report f...

WASHINGTON - Canadian MPs visiting Washington this week said they kept hearing a familiar message in the U.S. capital: that Canada and other NATO partners will be expected to pony up more money for th...

TORONTO - Lawyers for a Toronto anaesthesiologist jailed for sexually assaulting 21 sedated women during surgeries argue their client should be granted a new trial because the judge presiding over his...

OTTAWA - Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould fended off suggestions she was stirring up a debate on abortion Wednesday, as she introduced legislation to eliminate so-called “zombie laws”...

CALGARY - An Alberta judge says a taxi driver convicted of sexually assaulting an impaired woman he drove home from a Calgary bar must remain in jail. Lemuel Paulos was sentenced to four years in pris...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The Crown in Newfoundland has filed a notice to appeal the acquittal of a police officer accused of sexually assaulting an intoxicated young woman, saying the trial judge made...

RICHMOND, B.C. - A British Columbia woman has been fined $75,000 for illegally importing jewelry and other items made from endangered animals into Canada. Environment and Climate Change Canada, which ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The comparisons to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau keep pouring in, but up-and-coming Dutch politician Jesse Klaver cites weathered U.S. presidential candidate Bernie S...

OTTAWA - Government officials say they’ve turned the corner in trying to fix the troubled Phoenix civil service pay system. But Public Services and Procurement Canada deputy minister Marie Lemay...