Category Archives: Canada

Environmentalists say Ontario’s threatened boreal caribou will be put at greater risk if the province goes ahead with a proposal to give the forestry industry a two-year extension to exemptions ...

VANCOUVER - The chief justice of British Columbia’s Supreme Court says he is frustrated by the federal government’s “failure” to appoint judges, and is calling on Ottawa to urg...

OTTAWA - Changes to Canada’s arms export policy to prevent weapons from falling into the hands of human rights abusers won’t mean an end to a controversial contract with Saudi Arabia, Fore...

HALIFAX - A former university groundskeeper accused of sexually assaulting two Halifax women in the past five months is now facing a third sexual assault charge. Halifax police said Thursday Mathew Al...

OTTAWA - The federal government has not been able to determine with any certainty that Canadian-made light-armoured vehicles sold to Saudi Arabia were used by that country to suppress the Shiite minor...

Montreal actor Steve Nash doesn’t have any law enforcement training but he plays the role well enough to pull it off onscreen. Nash says he’s become typecast for these types of roles and h...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia will gradually hike its minimum hourly wage to get to $15.20 by June 2021. It’s a decision criticized by both labour and business groups. “We believe that 2021...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s premier moved Thursday to clarify remarks he made to a business audience about the province’s ban on hydraulic fracturing. Earlier this week, Stephen McNeil told th...

OTTAWA - Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is working with her counterparts in Alberta and British Columbia to try to find a solution to the trade war emerging between the two provinces over the ...

TORONTO - Canada’s largest school board will soon be stocking all its high schools with the overdose-reversing drug naloxone. Toronto District School Board spokesman Ryan Bird says naloxone kits...