Category Archives: Canada

VICTORIA - The lawyer for a man charged with second-degree murder in the deaths of his two daughters on Christmas Day in Oak Bay, B.C., says his client is entitled to the presumption of innocence. And...

HALIFAX - Women considering an abortion in Nova Scotia will soon be able to call a toll-free number to access information, arrange testing and set up an appointment. The phone line will eliminate the ...

DUTCH SETTLEMENT, N.S. - Someone stole a toilet, and the internet is amused. Nova Scotia RCMP say a Royal Flush portable toilet was stolen from a worksite in Dutch Settlement, northeast of Halifax, so...

OTTAWA - Canada’s heritage minister is shedding light on some of the details contained in the new Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal the federal government agreed to last week. The revised dea...

VICTORIA - An unlikely visitor to Vancouver Island is recovering at an animal rescue centre after being found, shivering and injured, on the Victoria waterfront. The female brown booby is receiving tr...

Allegations of animal abuse at a dog-sledding operation north of Toronto have prompted Ontario’s animal welfare organization to launch an investigation. The Ontario Society for the Prevention of...

Researchers have attached tiny cameras to polar bears for a bear’s-eye view of them hunting on the sea ice, one of a suite of high-tech tools providing what could be the closest look yet at how ...

George Weston Ltd. and Loblaw Companies Ltd. “should keep checking the mailroom” for upcoming legal action after they implicated Sobeys Inc. in an alleged industry-wide bread price-fixing ...

CALGARY - The national bread price-fixing scandal has sparked heated debate over the Competition Bureau’s immunity granting program, with a law enforcement expert defending the practice and a go...

VANCOUVER - Local politicians in British Columbia are calling for an overhaul of the housing system with significant tax and regulatory changes in order to bring skyrocketing real estate and rental pr...