Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia is joining a growing number of provinces trying to raise awareness about fentanyl in preparation for possible deaths linked to the powerful opioid. Justice Minister Diana Whalen ...

OTTAWA - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s office says it hopes a new report he commissioned will help make life-saving drugs more affordable for vulnerable people. Spokesman Matthias Gillmann ...

TRACADIE-SHEILA, N.B. - Parents searching for their missing son watched in shock as he fled the house of an elderly neighbour who had allegedly kidnapped him, New Brunswick police said. Tracadie RCMP ...

OTTAWA - A newly released government report shows a federal program that let low-income seniors earn more before their old-age benefits were clawed back had less of an effect on women and older senior...

EDMONTON - At least one legal scholar says a judicial oversight may invalidate the verdict that found an Alberta man guilty of second-degree murder. Travis Vader was convicted Thursday in the deaths o...

MONTREAL - Canadians will eventually tire of the Trudeau government’s lack of substance, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair said Thursday as his fellow party members appeared focused on the upcoming leaders...

HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia father whose assault on his infant son left the boy’s skull “like a crushed egg” has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail. “Your actions were ...

A chronology for convicted sex offender and former junior hockey coach Graham James, who was granted full parole Thursday: 1983-84: Named head scout of the Western Hockey League’s Winnipeg Warri...

EDMONTON - An Alberta judge has found Travis Vader guilty of second-degree murder in the killing of Lyle and Marie McCann, two seniors who disappeared more than six years ago. Justice Denny Thomas tol...

VICTORIA - British Columbia’s hot real estate market has boosted the province’s bottom line, freeing cash for a housing program and allowing the government to cancel a planned hike in medi...