Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - Former Quebec lieutenant-governor Lise Thibault will officially be granted full conditional release from jail Wednesday, according to documents from Quebec parole authorities. Thibault had ...

COQUITLAM, B.C. - Cardboard moving boxes are piled about the living room of an otherwise half-packed house nestled on a tree-lined residential street in a quiet Vancouver-area suburb - a scene frozen ...

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, Aug. 16. ___ PM SAYS SECURITY, LIBERTIES MUST BE BALANCED: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says balancing individuals rights with keeping Canadians secure from...

OTTAWA - As the clock ticks down on the Canadian Union of Postal Workers’ strike mandate, contract talks with Canada Post are going nowhere fast. Each side blames the other for the stalled negot...

LA LOCHE, Sask. - A remote northern Saskatchewan village where people were traumatized after a deadly school shooting is getting help to improve its future. Premier Brad Wall was in La Loche on Tuesda...

HALIFAX - Several thorny questions still haven’t been answered in the case of a Quebec man who refused to give border officers his cellphone pass code, say privacy and technology lawyers. Alain ...

TORONTO - A comedian who hopped on Toronto’s subway tracks to make a “cautionary” video about Pokemon Go says he won’t fight a charge against him. Toronto Transit Commission sp...

CALGARY - An Alberta judge has upheld a human rights decision that found a private school discriminated against two Muslim students by not allowing them to pray. The Alberta Human Rights Commission tr...

MONTREAL - A concert to raise awareness about the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria will be held in Montreal on Sept. 17, organizers said Tuesday. Usher, Half Moon Run, Metric and Grimes wi...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Another member of a major Canadian cocaine smuggling ring faces prison time in the U.S. after pleading guilty to federal drug charges. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Buffalo says ...