Category Archives: Canada

EDMONTON - Alberta is hiring a total of 50 more prosecutors to clear a backlog that is forcing the Crown to stay hundreds of charges, including cases of impaired driving. Justice Minister Kathleen Gan...

HALIFAX - A Halifax cab driver who was acquitted last week of sexually assaulting an intoxicated woman in the back of his taxi in 2015 was questioned after similar allegations three years earlier, acc...

Federal Justice Robin Camp is resigning after the Canadian Judicial Council recommended he be removed from the bench after making inappropriate remarks when he was a provincial court judge presiding o...

OTTAWA - “What we’re seeing now is that people are crossing illegally trying to seek asylum here in Canada, risking life and limb.” - NDP immigration critic Jenny Kwan. “What i...

OTTAWA - If the Trudeau government plans to take steps to address the economic risks of the Donald Trump presidency, they won’t be in the upcoming federal budget. Following weeks of meetings bet...

OTTAWA - A judge who asked a sexual assault complainant in a trial why she couldn’t keep her knees together quit Thursday after a scathing rebuke from the body that oversees the Canadian judicia...

TORONTO - A Canadian meat processor must pay a $6,000 penalty for allowing thousands of free-range hens on their way to slaughter to suffer in frigid conditions, the Federal Court of Appeal has ruled....

ST-JEROME, Que. - Lingering kisses, pinches on the buttocks and having to answer questions about sex were a regular part of life for Bertrand Charest’s ski students, one of his alleged victims t...

TORONTO - Prominent marijuana activists Marc and Jodie Emery were charged with multiple drug-related offences in Toronto on Thursday after police in several cities raided pot dispensaries associated w...

TORONTO - Pregnancy does not appear to increase the risk of death among women who have had breast cancer, say researchers, who found that five-year survival rates were similar for women who got pregna...