Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - Quebec Superior Court has given the green light to a class-action lawsuit filed by a mother over various school fees. The suit seeking damages and interest was authorized Tuesday by Justice...

OTTAWA - The long-awaited pan-Canadian climate plan to be finalized this week by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the premiers won’t include a detailed account of how Canada will meet its inter...

WASHINGTON - Some big players are attempting to gang-tackle Canada’s new policy on Super Bowl ads, with the National Football League, the U.S. government, Canadian broadcasters and advertisers a...

TORONTO - Police say a tip from the U.S. helped thwart an attack on a high school in Toronto on the 27th anniversary of the massacre at Polytechnique Montreal. Det. Len Nicholson told reporters a news...

EDMONTON - Women wearing hijabs received flowers Wednesday as they waited at an Edmonton light-rail transit station where two Muslim women were targeted in what police say could be a hate crime. The w...

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Dec. 8 JOHN GLENN DEAD AT 95: American astronaut John Glenn is dead at age 95. Glenn was the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth, which made him an all-...

OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says it’s “unacceptable” that an RCMP employee fabricated a response to an access-to-information request. Goodale says the individual in...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are moving on their promise to build a political firewall around Statistics Canada, but the fine print of the proposed legislative changes would maintain the government&#...

TORONTO - Police in Toronto say they’ve made their first confirmed seizure of the deadly drug carfentanil. They said Wednesday in a release that analysis of recently seized substances purported ...

OTTAWA - The interim Bloc Quebecois leader says he isn’t interested in the job on a permanent basis. Rheal Fortin, who has headed the party since last year’s federal election, says his dec...