Category Archives: Canada

SHERBROOKE, Que. - Train conductor Thomas Harding played a significant role in the deaths of 47 people in the Lac-Megantic tragedy because he didn’t sufficiently apply the brakes after parking t...

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia man awarded millions for wrongful imprisonment is now defending himself in a civil lawsuit, again denying he sexually assaulted five women. The women, identified only as...

CENTRAL SAANICH, B.C. - The first baby born on southern Vancouver Island in 2018 made a dramatic entrance Monday, delivered on the floor of the family’s laundry room with her father’s help...

OTTAWA - A federally commissioned blueprint for a new watchdog to review Canada’s border agency has some worried it lacks the necessary bite to ensure true accountability. A report produced for ...

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, Jan. 2 --- MPS NOT IMMUNE TO SEXUAL MISCONDUCT, SURVEY SUGGESTS: There have long been obstacles in the path of women seeking to succeed in politics - and som...

TORONTO - Some Toronto-Dominion Bank customers are having problems using its WebBroker internet brokerage service and taking to social media with their complaints. Several Twitter and Facebook users a...

A Canadian man recently freed with his wife and young children after years of being held hostage in Afghanistan has been charged with at least a dozen offences, including sexual assault, his lawyer sa...

FALMOUTH, N.S. - Four months after it lurched into a sinkhole with a terrifying clamour in the middle of the night, a Nova Scotia house has been demolished. Heather Strickey stood outside her Falmouth...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia has announced it will pay for the so-called abortion pill starting Jan. 15, becoming the sixth province to provide free access to the drug. Mifegymiso, also known as RU-48...

MONTREAL - The three-year-old boy who died after an overnight home fire in Quebec was a “ball of energy” and the light of his mother’s life, a relative said Tuesday. Police have not ...