Category Archives: Canada
Newfoundland police officer acquitted in contentious sexual assault case
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A jury has acquitted a Newfoundland police officer of sexually assaulting an intoxicated woman he drove home from a bar while on duty. Const. Carl Douglas Snelgrove of the Roy...
Feb 24, 2017

Quebec broadens inquiry into Montreal police force
MONTREAL - The Quebec government is broadening its investigation into allegations of corruption and wrongdoing within the Montreal police force, Public Security Minister Martin Coiteux announced Frida...
Feb 24, 2017
The Friday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Friday, Feb. 24 --- CONSERVATIVE CONFERENCE HEARS FROM POPULISTS: Conservatives gathered in Ottawa for the annual Manning conference heard from the man the event is n...
Feb 24, 2017
One principle that unites the Trump-era Republican party: hating its foes
NATIONAL HARBOR, United States - Donald Trump has just finished a speech at the country’s biggest annual gathering of conservatives, and outside in the hallway a group of young men are debating ...
Feb 24, 2017
Thieves make off with a lot of cheese from southwestern Ontario business
SOUTH WEST OXFORD TOWNSHIP, Ont. - Police in southwestern Ontario are looking for thieves who made off with a lot of cheese. Ontario Provincial Police say the Village Cheese Mill in South West Oxford ...
Feb 24, 2017
Migrants, war and profits: how federal politics touched Canadians this week
OTTAWA - Cynicism snaked through the corridors of Parliament Hill this week, lurking behind two competing claims of tolerance. A Conservative motion to condemn all forms of racism was soundly defeated...
Feb 24, 2017
National Basketball League teams brawl after game in New Brunswick
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - New Brunswick police say no charges will be laid after a brawl between players of two National Basketball League of Canada teams. Saint John police Sgt. Chuck Breen says two players...
Feb 24, 2017

Conservative leadership candidates attempt deeper dive into policy at debate
OTTAWA - Candidates for leadership of the federal Conservative party went four rounds Friday in a debate aimed at providing an opportunity for a deep dive into policy. But the cut-and-thrust of politi...
Feb 24, 2017
Woman, her mother and 2 kids die in collision on highway west of Timmins, Ont.
SOUTH PORCUPINE, Ont. - A northern Ontario First Nation is mourning the “terrible loss” of a 29-year-old pregnant mother, her two young sons and the children’s grandmother in a colli...
Feb 24, 2017
Six men face charges after RCMP foil alleged Cape Breton cocaine conspiracy
DARTMOUTH, N.S. - Nova Scotia RCMP say a drug trafficking investigation that began in Cape Breton has uncovered a conspiracy to import more than one tonne of cocaine into Canada from Colombia. Mountie...
Feb 24, 2017