Category Archives: Canada

Quebec’s health minister apologized profusely Wednesday after suggesting earlier in the day that election-night shooter Richard Henry Bain acted partly out of frustration with the political rhet...

A police report says a man who died from a drug overdose in a Cape Breton jail told a prison nurse he had taken five “nerve pill(s)” and appeared intoxicated, raising questions for an addi...

MONTREAL - Four years after being seriously wounded by the same bullet that killed his friend outside the Metropolis nightclub in 2012, Dave Courage says justice has finally been done. “Everyone...

OTTAWA - The political pressure is mounting on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to outline specific measures to control spending among his cabinet ministers, now that two of them find their own practices...

Researchers have confirmed the widespread release of ancient carbon from melting Arctic permafrost in what could be the lit fuse on a climate-change bomb. A paper published this week in Nature Geoscie...

TORONTO - Royal Bank CEO David McKay says the lender is “closely monitoring” the real estate markets in Vancouver and Toronto, where home prices have been climbing at a breakneck pace. ...

COQUITLAM, B.C. - The Canadian Press erroneously reported on Aug. 16 that British Columbia has brought in a tax on homebuyers in Metro Vancouver who are non-residents of the province. In fact, the tax...

A class-action lawsuit launched by former inmates of a London, Ont., detention centre over the conditions of the facility has been given the green light to proceed. Superior Court Justice A. Duncan Gr...

Halifax police say they have opened a murder investigation after a body was found in a stolen car in a church cemetery. RCMP say officers received a report of the missing vehicle from North Preston ju...

OTTAWA - Fixing the problems with the federal government’s new payroll system will cost more than $25 million, although the total won’t be known for weeks, a top official at Public Works a...