Category Archives: Canada

SHIP BOTTOM, N.J. - Authorities say a Canadian woman lying on a New Jersey beach has been run over by a truck picking up trash. A spokesman with the Ocean County prosecutor’s office says Megan F...

FREDERICTON - Canadian lawyers are applauding a precedent-setting judgment for decades-old child abuse in New Brunswick, saying it’s an important moment as more sex-abuse victims come forward to...

TORONTO - The CBC will not be permitted to play paid advertisements on two of its radio networks as of Thursday. The CRTC rejected the CBC’s application for an extension that would have allowed ...

VANCOUVER - Canada’s plans to restrict six chemicals used to make fentanyl will only increase demands for a more dangerous replacement if other steps to stem a national opioid crisis are not tak...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Banning peaceful displays of photos during judge-only court hearings is “unacceptable,” the founder of a national victims’ support group said Wednesday. In t...

TORONTO - A teen girl is facing charges after a commotion at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, which shut down earlier than planned on Tuesday over safety concerns. Toronto police say offic...

SASKATOON - Hockey legend Gordie Howe is coming home. A Saskatoon official says the city has received permission from the province to inter the cremated remains of Howe and his wife, Colleen, at the b...

A venomous snake that was the subject of a hunt in a wooded area east of Toronto has been captured, but a python remains on the loose in Montreal. A spokeswoman for Ajax, Ont., says the copperhead was...

HALIFAX - Experts in privacy and civil rights are raising questions about a police news conference that identified 27 men caught in a Cape Breton prostitution sting, saying the move amounted to unnece...

WINNIPEG - The husband of a woman on trial for concealing the remains of six infants in a storage locker thought his wife was hoarding furniture. “I thought it was her father’s, hoarding f...