Category Archives: Canada

CLYDE RIVER, Nunavut - British actor Emma Thompson says she received a lesson in the pervasiveness of modern celebrity as Inuit children surrounded her at a grocery store in a remote Canadian Arctic c...

TORONTO - An appeal by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Canadians living abroad for donations to the Liberal party has struck a sour note with disenfranchised long-term expats. The cash solicitation o...

CALGARY - The Alberta government says an online video showing a black bear being killed by a spear is unacceptable and it plans to ban the practice. The video posted in June on the YouTube account of ...

CALGARY - Conservative MP Jason Kenney says a negative tweet featuring Alberta Premier Rachel Notley’s face sitting inside the crosshairs of a scope came from an attention-seeking loser. The twe...

Highlights from the news file for Monday, Aug. 15 ___ GOVERNMENT OVERHAULS IMMIGRATION DETENTION SYSTEM: Immigration holding facilities in Vancouver and Laval, Que., will be replaced as part of a $138...

OTTAWA - Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould is being shielded from any funding decisions affecting a Vancouver-based, non-profit organization run by a relative. “The minister of justice takes...

The CEO of a Canadian company alleged to have knowingly delivered shoddy armoured vehicles to the U.S. military has lost his bids to stave off extradition to face fraud charges south of the border, bu...

MONTREAL - Jurors at Richard Henry Bain’s first-degree murder trial will deliberate for a fourth day after failing to reach a verdict Monday. Aside from a few minor issues, Day 3 went by without...

Four stories in the news today from The Canadian Press: ____ PRIME MINISTER IN NOVA SCOTIA, P.E.I. TODAY The Prime Minister continues his swing through Atlantic Provinces today, with stops in Nova Sco...

MONTREAL - The jurors deciding the fate of the man charged in Quebec’s 2012 election-night shooting ended their first day of deliberations on without returning a verdict. Richard Henry Bain, 65,...