Category Archives: Canada

VICTORIA - A farmer in northeast British Columbia is still hopeful that he’ll get to stay in his home, despite an announcement by BC Hydro that the company plans to seize the property to make wa...

HALIFAX - It’s 26 seconds of brutality - and lays bare the emerging reality of a growing number of beatings in Canada’s jails. Inmate Dwayne Wright, watching television with his feet up, i...

EDMONTON - This cat may have used up more than one of its nine lives. A Canadian National Railway conductor was checking the engines on his train early Sunday in Wainwright, Alta., when he heard a pat...

TORONTO - An Ontario police officer who claimed he “murdered” two people in separate encounters was cleared of any wrongdoing on Monday, after the province’s police watchdog found he...

OTTAWA - The federal government is withdrawing certain proposed changes to the Bank Act because of opposition from Quebec. Finance Minister Bill Morneau confirmed Monday that provisions in Bill C-29 t...

Highlights from the news file for Monday, Dec. 12 FEDS TO MAKE IT EASIER TO ESTABLISH SAFE INJECTION SITES: The federal government is making it easier to set up supervised drug injection sites in Cana...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley has rebuffed calls to fire her human services minister, and instead is accusing the opposition of crass grandstanding in the death of a four-year-old girl. ...

MONTREAL - Convicted ex-Liberal organizer Jacques Corriveau is appealing his fraud conviction related to the federal sponsorship scandal. In a motion filed at the Quebec Court of Appeal earlier this m...

OTTAWA - The federal economic development minister says he likes Canada’s chances in the global battle to attract top talent and investment even as a potential threat lurks in the distance: Dona...

HALIFAX - A judge heard arguments Monday about media access to court documents in a Nova Scotia case involving the alleged sharing of intimate images without consent by teenagers. Defence lawyer Joshu...