Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Police and the public need to be able to clearly distinguish between valid street checks by officers and random stops that should be abandoned altogether, a judge tasked with reviewing the p...

Five stories in the news for Friday, Jan. 4 ___ LAWMAKERS TO RAISE IMPRISONED CANADIANS IN CHINA While it was not the initial reason for the trip, a group of six MPs and Senators heading to China say ...

GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. - A report says a man found not criminally responsible in November for the stabbing deaths of two people at a northwest Alberta work camp is not entitled to an absolute discharge...

MONTREAL - A character playing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes a drag from a joint and is suddenly transported into a fantasy world where he is dressed in traditional Indian clothing as talking co...

OTTAWA - The federal government’s big-ticket efforts to support high-growth tech firms are offering little for emerging companies that have already outgrown the fledgling start-up phase, accordi...

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Police say a woman and her five-year-old child have been released from hospital one week after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning in a car. The woman’s three-year-old child r...

VANCOUVER - The confession and later statements of a British Columbia man leave no reasonable doubt he abducted, sexually assaulted and killed a 12-year-old girl in 1978, a Crown counsel told jurors T...

DONKIN, N.S. - Operations have been suspended at Cape Breton’s Donkin coal mine after a “roof fall,” the latest in a string of incidents since last July, according to the provincial ...

TORONTO - A Toronto-area flour company has been ordered to pay $25,000 for misrepresenting a cake mix as kosher, after an Ontario court said the move could cause “spiritual trauma” to cons...

SEATTLE - Two more Puget Sound orcas are ailing and probably will be dead by summer, according an expert on the critically endangered population of killer whales that live in the waters of the Pacific...