Category Archives: Canada

VANCOUVER - Protests against the opening of the Trump International Hotel and Tower last week in Vancouver cost the police department more than $100,000. Const. Jason Doucette says estimates show poli...

Highlights from the news file for Monday, March 6 --- NEW TRUMP TRAVEL BAN PROMPTS NEW QUESTIONS: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is skirting demands to speak out against the U.S. government’s new...

KINGSTON, Ont. - Health officials and police are warning that counterfeit prescription medications and some illicit drugs in the Kingston, Ont., area are believed to be contaminated with fentanyl. Kin...

VICTORIA - British Columbia’s Liberals say their fundraising practices are transparent and the party will co-operate fully with an Elections BC review of potential Election Act violations involv...

MONTREAL - A Montrealer who is a Canadian citizen by birth says she was barred from entering the United States and told to get a valid visa if she ever wants to cross the border. Manpreet Kooner said ...

TORONTO - A forestry multinational that is suing Greenpeace under American racketeering laws alleges that the activist organization’s recent court filings are essentially an admission that it li...

REGINA - Premier Brad Wall says he will stop getting more pay from the Saskatchewan Party, but don’t look for changes to political donation laws. Wall has been getting about $37,000 a year from ...

HALIFAX - A Halifax-area man has been convicted of sexually assaulting a sleeping woman, in a case likely to add to the growing discourse over sexual consent. Robert Shawn Burton of Lower Sackville, N...

TORONTO - The organizer of a luncheon featuring a speech by the father of an American Muslim soldier killed in Iraq said Monday that the event was cancelled because the man’s “travel privi...

VANCOUVER - A 15-per-cent tax on foreign homebuyers in Metro Vancouver is unconstitutional and unfairly discriminates against people from Asia, a proposed class-action lawsuit against the British Colu...