Category Archives: Canada

THUNDER BAY, Ont. - Aboriginal leaders say indigenous artist Moses Beaver has died under what they are calling unexplained circumstances. Beaver, a renowned Woodlands artist, is believed to have died ...

ST. PAUL, Alta. - An Alberta judge says the province should require doctors to report unfit drivers following a deadly crash at a small-town school. Provincial court Judge Karl Wilberg says in his fat...

WHITEHORSE - Charges under the Yukon Elections Act have been laid against a candidate who ran unsuccessfully in the 2016 territorial election. Tamara Goeppel, the candidate who represented the Yukon L...

BARRIE, Ont. - Police say five people who overdosed after using what they believed was cocaine at a party in a city north of Toronto, actually took heroin laced with the deadly opioid fentanyl. They s...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s Finance Ministry is disputing claims from a Fraser Institute report that says the province’s carbon tax is no longer revenue neutral. The study released Thur...

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - A police force in southern Alberta says it has made changes to how officers should interact with transgender individuals. The Lethbridge Police Service heard concerns and received ...

OTTAWA - The federal government’s bid to find new ways to finance the construction of affordable housing is yielding its first results. A new $3.5 million, three-storey, 40-unit building that ca...

TORONTO - An Ontario municipality that operated an adventure park has lost its bid to have the country’s highest court review its liability for a mountain biker’s devastating injury. In a ...

OTTAWA - A Liberal-backed motion aimed at combating racism would have broader support if it didn’t contain the word “Islamophobia,” former justice minister Irwin Cotler argued Thursd...

EDMONTON - A last-ditch attempt to get Jason Kenney kicked out of the Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership race has failed. Party president Katherine O’Neill ruled Thursday that a bid by ...