Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Gord Downie’s chief oncologist has been to all but one of the Tragically Hip’s farewell concerts and plans to attend each of the band’s remaining shows, including the final...

TORONTO - Three years after sparking a firestorm of controversy, a notorious video featuring Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine was made public on Thursday, a move that angered the late Toronto mayor̵...

A timeline in the case of Aaron Driver, a man suspected of planning terrorist activities who was killed in a confrontation with RCMP: December 2014: RCMP receive a complaint from a member of the publi...

OTTAWA - The top public servant at the department overseeing the troubled Phoenix payroll system says officials are trying to get to the root causes of issues with the new system in order to restore t...

TORONTO - A look at some significant dates in the so called “crack video” scandal involving the late Toronto mayor Rob Ford. Oct. 25, 2010: Ford is elected as mayor with just over 47 per c...

CHARLOTTETOWN - A former RCMP constable has been charged with 12 weapons offences after more than 70 firearms were seized from his Prince Edward Island home. Forty-three-year-old Jeffrey Rae Gillis is...

OTTAWA - “The (Green party’s) resolution process is very different from other parties. Members come up with resolutions independently. Neither the leader nor anyone in the executive of the...

MIRAMICHI, N.B. - The son of Parliament Hill shooting hero Kevin Vickers is being commended for his part in saving a woman’s life - again. Const. Andrew Vickers of Miramichi police responded Tue...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will hear a Crown appeal in the extradition case of a mother and uncle accused in connection with a so-called honour killing in India. Jaswinder (Jassi) Sidhu was ...

OTTAWA - Federal officials scrambled to book costly last-minute flights in order to bring a cabinet minister back to Ottawa earlier this year in time for an expected vote on the government’s con...