Category Archives: Canada

REGINA - The Saskatchewan government has introduced legislation to invoke the notwithstanding clause of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. If passed, the legislation would allow the government to kee...

EDMONTON - Gender and vocabulary are clashing on the floor of the Alberta legislature. Premier Rachel Notley, one day after accusing a male opponent of mansplaining, is calling out another for “...

SALMON ARM , B.C. - Temporary shelters and heavy equipment have been removed from a British Columbia farm where the remains of an 18-year-old woman were found. But RCMP say the search of the site is a...

HALIFAX - Police in Halifax are investigating two separate cases of straight pins being found in Halloween chocolate bars, adding to a number of candy-tampering incidents across the region. Investigat...

MONTREAL - William Weintraub, a prolific filmmaker involved in 150 National Film Board productions and a gifted chronicler of Montreal during the city’s heyday and decline, has died at the age o...

EDMONTON - A new report says the rising number of opioid overdoses in Alberta is disproportionately affecting Indigenous people, including more deaths and visits to emergency rooms. Alberta Health say...

WINNIPEG - Years of legal proceedings in the death of a Winnipeg teenager in 1984 have now come to an end. The Crown has decided not to appeal the acquittal of Mark Edward Grant, who was found not gui...

TORONTO - The creators of a planned opera about the tragic sinking of a Canadian hospital ship during the First World War say it’s time to resurrect the stories of nurses who died in heroic serv...

REGINA - Indigenous leaders and teachers are raising concerns after Saskatchewan’s education minister suggested there might be too much “infusion” of First Nations history in school ...

AURORA, Ont. - Police say more than 40 residents in communities north of Toronto have fallen victim to a Bitcoin tax scam, sending over $300,000 to fraudsters since August. York regional police say th...