Category Archives: Canada
B.C. Appeal Court gives Ottawa more time to fix solitary confinement law
VANCOUVER - The Court of Appeal of British Columbia has given the federal government more time to fix its solitary confinement law after a lower court declared indefinite prisoner segregation unconsti...
Jan 07, 2019
Family of Quebecer missing in Africa reassured Ottawa taking case seriously
MONTREAL - The family of a Quebec woman who went missing with her Italian friend in West Africa last month says it finally feels federal authorities are taking the case seriously following several fru...
Jan 07, 2019
Tina Fontaine's cousin killed during botched drug debt collection: Crown
WINNIPEG - The cousin of a teenager whose death fuelled calls to stop violence against Indigenous women was herself killed in a botched attempt to collect on a drug debt, jurors at a manslaughter tria...
Jan 07, 2019
Crews still battling fire aboard massive Halifax-bound container ship
HALIFAX - Crews working to extinguish a fire that’s been burning for four days aboard a large container ship off Canada’s east coast are facing some big challenges, an expert in offshore s...
Jan 07, 2019
Senior officer asked police investigator to lie, Oland murder trial told
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - A retired Saint John police officer could not hold back tears Monday as he recalled the pain of being asked to lie on the stand at the Dennis Oland murder trial. Retired Staff-Sgt. ...
Jan 07, 2019
In the news today, Jan. 7
Three stories in the news for Monday, Jan. 7 ANTI-PIPELINE DEMONSTRATORS AWAIT RCMP ACTION Indigenous demonstrators blocking access to a planned pipeline in northern B.C. say they are anticipating RCM...
Jan 07, 2019
'Between two worlds:' Saskatchewan Premier apologizes to '60s Scoop survivors
REGINA - Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe apologized to survivors of the ’60s Scoop Monday for failing them and leaving them “caught between two worlds.” “On behalf of the govern...
Jan 07, 2019
Global Affairs acknowledges Quebecer may have been kidnapped: report
Radio-Canada reports that the federal government is not ruling out the possibility that a Quebec woman and her Italian friend may have been abducted in west Africa. Sherbrooke native Edith Blais and h...
Jan 06, 2019
Former Alberta MP Myron Thompson, known for cowboy hat and controversy, dies
SUNDRE, Alta. - A former Alberta MP known for his cowboy hat and controversial positions on a number of issues has died. Myron Thompson - who supported the American-led war in Iraq, opposed gun laws a...
Jan 06, 2019
Quebec rights commission upholds black family's complaint against police
MONTREAL - Quebec’s human rights commission is recommending a suburb south of Montreal pay four members of a black family $86,000 and implement anti-discrimination training for its police office...
Jan 06, 2019
