Category Archives: Canada

REGINA - A veteran, retired teacher has denied any professional misconduct with members of a girls’ basketball team she coached in the late 1980s. Martina Cain testified in her own defence Wedne...

VICTORIA - Michelle Stilwell, one of the world’s most decorated Paralympic athletes and the first Canadian Paralympian to win gold in two different sports, has announced her retirement. The seve...

The decision to ask the public for help in finding a “blueberry bandit” involved in a truck robbery may have seemed like a light-hearted approach, but it helped spread the word, Hamilton p...

WINNIPEG - People have been walking across the United States border to claim refugee status for years, but a Winnipeg immigration lawyer says he’s not used to seeing them cross over in the bitte...

SASKATOON - The sister of a teacher who was killed in a school shooting is speaking out in support of the northern Saskatchewan community where he died. Adam Wood was killed along with a teacher’...

EDMONTON - An Edmonton police officer has been charged with perjury for something he said during an interview for a job with another police force. The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team says the o...

QUEBEC - Parti Quebecois Leader Jean-Francois Lisee says a report he commissioned about the makeup of the party membership lays out some “disturbing truths” that could serve to broaden its...

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Feb. 8 --- CANADA ISSUES WARNING ON U.S. TAX IDEA: The Canadian government is launching a pre-emptive warning for American policy-makers considering a tax ...

HALIFAX - Earlier this week, a plebiscite in a rural corner of Nova Scotia laid bare the province’s particularly bizarre relationship with alcohol. Nova Scotia may have a reputation for rum-runn...

OTTAWA - From the West came the calls of a double standard: why are the federal Liberals giving Bombardier Inc. a $372.5-million loan while thousands of jobs in the oil and gas industry remain consign...