Category Archives: Canada

EDMONTON - The Alberta government is taking the war on fentanyl abuse to the next level by exploring a plan to set up safe, supervised sites for opioid use. Brandy Payne, Alberta’s associate min...

CALGARY - Former journalist Arthur Kent asked an Alberta judge Thursday to award him $1.2 million for his legal costs in a successful defamation lawsuit against Canada’s largest newspaper chain....

TORONTO - Concerns about foreign investors snapping up real estate have dominated headlines recently, but a new report suggests domestic investors outnumber foreign buyers in the Greater Toronto Area&...

MONTREAL - Call it acronym acrimony. The province’s anti-corruption unit certainly wasn’t laughing over a public-sector union’s appropriation of the word ”UPAC.” The four...

VANCOUVER - The federal government is standing behind its decision to approve the massive Pacific NorthWest LNG project, despite facing new court challenges and accusations that it has broken climate ...

WINNIPEG - Lawyers are set to argue whether a man who has admitted to sexually assaulting and battering a Winnipeg woman and a teenage girl should be sentenced as an adult or a youth. The man, who can...

TORONTO - Media and rights groups on Thursday won the right to intervene in a news outlet’s appeal of an order that one of its reporters turn over his materials to the RCMP. The ruling by Ontari...

Quebec should recognize Canadian values and support its neighbours, Newfoundland and Labrador’s finance minister said Thursday as the two provinces clashed over the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric p...

TORONTO - A retired United Church minister has asked to be formally defrocked as a protest against the potential firing of a colleague for her atheist beliefs. In a scorching open letter, Rev. Beverle...

MEMBERTOU, N.S. - Daniel Christmas helped transform his near-bankrupt First Nation into one of the country’s most successful. Now, named what is believed to be Canada’s first Mi’kmaq...