Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Two plane loads of Canadian Olympians returned home from Rio to a hero’s welcome, as flag-waving fans clamoured for autographs and cheering family members offered up homecoming hugs. S...

MONTREAL - A jury has convicted Quebec’s 2012 election-night shooter of second-degree murder in the death of a lighting technician. The jurors also convicted Richard Henry Bain of three counts o...

OTTAWA - Even without a Chinese-Canadian free trade deal, the federal government should be deepening its business relationship with the rapidly expanding Asian economy on multiple fronts, says a globa...

Highlights from the news file for Monday, Aug. 22 ___ CANADA BASKING IN OLYMPIC ACHIEVEMENTS: The chef de mission of the Canadian Olympic team believes there was a Pan Am effect at work. Curt Harnett ...

THE PAS, Man. - A forest products company that is the largest employer in The Pas in northern Manitoba says it will shut down in December. Tolko Industries says 332 workers have been notified that the...

OTTAWA - Many mosques and Islamic schools in Canada are placing young people at risk by espousing - or at least not condemning - extremist teachings, a new study says. Co-authors Thomas Quiggin, a for...

MONTREAL - A slander trial is set to begin next month pitting a fiercely secular, feminist author against a private, Muslim school in Montreal she likened to militant Islamic training camps in Afghani...

OTTAWA - The controversy surrounding Jane Philpott’s travel expenses grew Monday as evidence surfaced that the federal Liberal health minister billed taxpayers $520 for access to Air Canada̵...

TORONTO - The recent arrests of two men accused of failing to disclose their HIV status to their sexual partners have renewed calls for changes to the current legislation that advocates say contribute...

CALGARY - The parents of a man shot dead by Calgary police while he was holding a syringe in a hotel room say they’re devastated the officer won’t be charged and they’ll keep fightin...