Category Archives: Canada

Leadership race heats up as Conservative caucus gathers in Halifax
OTTAWA - The Conservative leadership race will start ramping up as MPs and senators gather in Halifax for a summer caucus retreat beginning Tuesday morning. The Tories will spend two days discussing h...
Sep 12, 2016
B.C. court hears differing diagnoses on prescription to cure medicare ills
VANCOUVER - Advocates on both sides of a legal debate over the future of public health care in Canada are offering opposing diagnoses on how to rejuvenate what many consider an overburdened medical sy...
Sep 12, 2016

Pat Pimm, B.C. member of legislature. charged with assault
VICTORIA - British Columbia’s former agriculture minister and member of the provincial legislature Pat Pimm is accused of allegedly assaulting his wife. The province’s Criminal Justice Bra...
Sep 12, 2016
Metre-long boa constrictor tests police response in Chilliwack, B.C.
CHILLIWACK, B.C. - Some suspects are tougher to take into custody than others, but Mounties in Chilliwack, B.C., had no trouble with one unusual arrest. Officers were called to an area behind a home i...
Sep 12, 2016
Man convicted in webcam murder denied government-funded lawyer for appeal
TORONTO - A man who killed a Toronto university student from China in an attack partly witnessed via webcam has been denied a request for a government-paid lawyer to represent him in an appeal of his ...
Sep 12, 2016
Designated driver blew 2 1/2 times legal limit, Kingston, Ont., police allege
KINGSTON, Ont. - Police in Kingston, Ont., say a “designated driver” is facing impaired driving charges after allegedly blowing more than two times the legal limit. They say an officer not...
Sep 12, 2016

Judge Robin Camp should be removed from bench over comments: lawyer
CALGARY - A lawyer presenting the case against a federal judge over comments he made to a sexual assault complainant says there’s sufficient evidence to remove Robin Camp from the bench. Marjori...
Sep 12, 2016
RCMP 'neutral' but to protect property as AltaGas, aboriginals spar over island
STEWIACKE, N.S. - The RCMP says it is staying “neutral” as AltaGas Ltd. and Mi’kmaq protesters are at odds over aboriginal presence on a tiny island near the energy company’s p...
Sep 12, 2016

New UBC president Santa Ono commends 'thoughtful' report on sexual assaults
VANCOUVER - Members of an expert panel tasked with examining the University of British Columbia’s approach to sex assaults say more hard work lies ahead, after the institution published a critic...
Sep 12, 2016
Man, 31, charged with fraud in alleged Tragically Hip online ticket scam
KINGSTON, Ont. - A southwestern Ontario man is facing a fraud charge for allegedly advertising Tragically Hip tickets online and not delivering the product. Police say a Kingston, Ont., man responded ...
Sep 12, 2016