Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - Moving to avoid a Toronto-style conflict, Halifax’s police force says it will not participate in the city’s Pride parade this year. Halifax Regional Police said the decision was ...

LAMEQUE, N.B. - The military has begun to withdraw from northeastern New Brunswick, as the region slowly returns to normal following a devastating ice storm two weeks ago. Dave Brown, town manager for...

TORONTO - A judge who ordered a journalist to turn over his background materials to the RCMP failed to properly balance the need to prosecute a serious crime against the ability of the media to do the...

OTTAWA - Transport Canada has issued a recall for 12,035 Chevrolet Orlandos, saying some of them could lose their power-steering assist due to corrosion caused by road salt. The recall affects vehicle...

Five stories in the news for Monday, Feb. 6 --- JUDGE TO HAND DOWN RULING IN GIESBRECHT TRIAL A judge is expected to hand down a verdict today in the case a woman charged with disposing of the remains...

GATINEAU, Que. - Some cellphone companies are either passively or actively violating Canada’s wireless code of conduct and the rules need to be tightened and enforced, consumer groups told a hea...

OTTAWA - A new report suggests the federal government’s offer on health funding to the provinces doesn’t provide enough cash to help them keep up services in the coming years. The study, t...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government’s economic advisory council is recommending Ottawa raise the age of retirement eligibility and explore a national child-care program to boost much-needed particip...

WINNIPEG - A psychiatrist testified Monday that a schizophrenic man who beheaded and cannibalized a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus is unlikely to go off of his medication because he doesn’t...

FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick government will increase funding in some key areas of higher education by just over five per cent in a provincial budget to be tabled Tuesday. A government source with ...