Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - Nearly 80 years after his father delivered a speech in Nova Scotia that would help inspire Bob Marley lyrics, Julius Garvey says the message of the speech and song still ring true. “It...

OTTAWA - Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould reimbursed the public purse for a meal the night she was in Toronto for a Liberal party fundraiser at a private law firm. CTV News reported Wilson-Raybou...

OTTAWA - Liberal MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes remembers being on a train, tears streaming down her face, trying to calm herself before anyone realized who she was. “I just kept thinking, ‘Oh...

EDMONTON - A judge is allowing cameras in an Edmonton courtroom for his verdict today in the case of Travis Vader. Vader has pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in the 2010 deaths ...

VANCOUVER - A private clinic’s legal crusade to expand the role of the free market in Canada’s public health-care system puts profit over patients and would lead to greater hardship for mo...

EDMONTON - A judge is expected to deliver a verdict today in the first-degree murder trial of Travis Vader. Vader, 44, has pleaded not guilty in the deaths of Lyle and Marie McCann, an Alberta couple ...

EDMONTON - A judge is to release his verdict today for a man accused in the deaths of two Alberta seniors. Lyle and Marie McCann vanished six years ago after they headed out on a camping trip. Travis ...

EDMONTON - Bret McCann hopes a verdict Thursday in the trial of a man accused of killing his parents and hiding their bodies will end a six-year-long nightmare for his family. Travis Vader has pleaded...

OTTAWA - A new federal survey suggests the percentage of students who smoke tobacco fell to about three per cent in 2014-15 from four per cent a year earlier. The Canadian Student Tobacco, Alcohol and...

OTTAWA - The Defence Department’s procurement chief says he is having a hard time finding experienced personnel as he hires hundreds of new employees to help untangle the snarled military purcha...