Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Security and radicalization experts say the fact Aaron Driver was able to plan a terrorist attack with explosives while under a peace bond shows the court-ordered tool is far from the full an...

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - The new-age fighter jet once poised to replace Canada’s aging CF-18 fleet, but whose ballooning price tag and controversial selection process threw its purchase into doubt, ha...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Bar Association is urging the federal government to expand its restrictive new law on assisted dying, allowing mature minors, people suffering strictly from psychological illness...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will ask those tasked with developing a short list of candidates for the Supreme Court to include judges from Atlantic Canada, but that does not mean someone fro...

MONTREAL - The Crown and defence clashed one last time at the trial of accused murderer Richard Henry Bain on Thursday as they attempted to bolster their cases before the jury is sequestered. In his c...

EDMONTON - The NDP wants Alberta’s chief electoral officer to investigate Progressive Conservative leadership hopeful Jason Kenney’s political fundraising activities. Alberta NDP Provincia...

OTTAWA - Revamped federal rules to allow Canadians to grow their own medical marijuana are likely to form part of the government’s overall plan for legalization of the drug, the federal justice ...

TORONTO - The Ontario Energy Board is issuing new guidelines to better define obligations to consult First Nations communities about “hydrocarbon pipelines,” just days after the National E...

QUEBEC - A funding drive for the father of a baby born shortly after her mother was fatally struck by a car had collected about $30,000 as of Thursday evening. Marie-Pier Gagne, 27, was 40 weeks pregn...

MONTREAL - In between a downtown expressway and a towering grain silo along Montreal’s historic Lachine Canal lies a 130-year-old, grey limestone one-storey structure housing ambitious blacksmit...