Category Archives: Canada

EDMONTON - An Edmonton mother has been charged after her seven-month-old infant was left in a parked vehicle while the temperature outside was -28 C. Police say officers rescued the child from the bac...

OTTAWA - The House of Commons has unanimously agreed to fast-track a bill introduced by interim Tory leader Rona Ambrose that would require would-be judges to take courses in sexual assault law. The C...

LOS ANGELES - A spokeswoman for Peter Nygard says the Canadian clothing manufacturer plans to appeal a ruling in the Bahamas that found he violated a 2013 court order to stop dredging near his beachfr...

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...