Category Archives: Canada

CALGARY - Big moves by the Canadian and U.S. governments on oil pipelines in recent months are threatening the long-term future of the main alternative: crude shipped by rail. First the federal govern...

OTTAWA - Newly released documents show the Liberal government is expecting to send some $30 million in unused infrastructure money directly to cities through a temporary top-up to the gas tax fund. Th...

CRANBROOK, B.C. - The prosecution says a woman accused of pushing her husband to kill himself offered the man pills and then told him she would get him a gun. In his opening argument Wednesday in B.C....

EDMONTON - A report suggests failings in Alberta government policy were a factor in the death of a mental-health worker who was killed by a client with a long history of unpredictable, violent behavio...

OTTAWA - Transport Canada has issued a safety recall notice for 7,143 sport cars under the Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky brands. The government agency says that airbags in the front passenger area o...

OTTAWA - Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says the federal government is concerned about a new outbreak of fighting in Ukraine and is looking at ways to “improve” Canada’s military sup...

NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. - A southern Ontario police force has declared a “bagpipe amnesty.” Niagara regional police are calling on anyone with “an old set of bagpipes lying under a bed o...

CALGARY - Alberta’s chief medical examiner testified Wednesday that human bone fragments were found in the ash from a burning barrel at the home of a suspect in a triple-murder trial. Douglas Ga...

MONTREAL - Quebec provincial police say they’ve detained seven men who allegedly imported and trafficked cocaine. They are aged between 24 and 52 and were arrested today in Montreal and suburbs ...

CALGARY - A British Columbia law firm says the Superior Court of Quebec has authorized a national class action lawsuit to begin against Air Canada over a glitch in ticket prices that occurred in Augus...