Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - A published report says Toronto media personality Mike Bullard has been charged with criminal harassment but his lawyer isn’t commenting on the matter. Asked about the report, Bullard&...

MONTREAL - Military police are investigating an alleged sexual assault that occurred over the weekend at a leadership school for new recruits south of Montreal. Police spokesman Jean-Marc Mercier said...

QUEBEC - Crown officials in Quebec will announce Friday whether they are laying charges against provincial police in the alleged sexual abuse of indigenous women. Prosecutors said Monday they have fin...

OTTAWA - A rookie Liberal MP has apologized for incorrectly selling himself to voters as a professional engineer during last fall’s federal election campaign. Majid Jowhari, MP for the Toronto-a...

EDSON, Alta. - An Alberta farm family has reached a settlement with an energy company that tainted their land with chemicals. Bonavista Energy (TSX:BNP) has also been ordered by the Alberta Energy Reg...

OTTAWA - Canada’s overall greenhouse gas emissions will likely peak before 2020, says a new report, but achieving the country’s 2030 targets is going to require much more work. The indepen...

VICTORIA - The president of the teacher’s union in British Columbia said Monday he expects more teachers in classrooms as early as January after a Supreme Court of Canada decision that affects c...

Highlights from the news file for Monday, Nov. 14 -- OBAMA SAYS U.S. UNDER TRUMP WILL MAINTAIN ALLIANCES: U.S. President Barack Obama says the U.S. under Donald Trump will remain the “indispensa...

CALGARY - Siblings of a senior found dead in her home last month say a hideous illness, and not her husband of 56 years, is to blame. Audrey van Zuiden, 80, was found Oct. 4 in the Calgary home she sh...

TORONTO - Ontario is doubling the rebate on its land transfer tax for first-time homebuyers to $4,000 in an effort to help them enter the housing market, but it is also raising the same tax on homes t...