Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The national spy service saw little risk to the personal privacy of Canadians in a self-penned evaluation of its secret data-crunching centre - a shadowy program now at the centre of intense ...

SAINT-JEROME, Que. - A trial for a former national ski coach who faces dozens of sex-related charges involving allegations from girls as young as 12 has been put off until Thursday. The 57 charges aga...

Ten stories in the news for Monday, Feb. 27: --- PRISON SERVICE SWAMPED WITH LITIGATION Canada’s prison service faced 12-hundred legal actions at the end of last March - a figure the federal pri...

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Kelly Ellard will be allowed to leave prison to go to doctor’s appointments and parenting programs with her baby, despite a parole board member saying he’s disturbed by ...

Canada will slash anti-dumping duties on U.S. drywall imports after a trade panel ruled that maintaining levies imposed last fall would harm consumers and businesses, federal Finance Minister Bill Mor...

GATINEAU, Que. - The ho-hum New Democrat leadership race got a little more competitive Monday as Quebec MP Guy Caron became the third candidate to officially declare that he wants to be the one to suc...

VANCOUVER - New research suggests that providing universal coverage for more than 100 prescription medications could save Canadians as much as $3 billion per year. A paper published in the Canadian Me...

OTTAWA - And then there were two. Ontario MP Charlie Angus officially entered the NDP leadership race Sunday - a competition that’s expected to start heating up soon with a debate scheduled for ...

HALIFAX - A roughly 10 metre segment hung in the fog over Halifax Harbour on Sunday to fill the 46th and final gap in the decades-old MacDonald Bridge in time for tens of thousands of cars to cross th...

OTTAWA - It is indefensible that Health Canada has failed to register the opioid Tramadol under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, a drug-safety researcher says, noting the department explored m...