Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - In a chilling videotape confession played for a jury in an Ottawa courtroom on Friday, Basil Borutski detailed how he methodically drove around Renfrew County on a clear, September day two ye...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The company that runs the Hibernia platform off Newfoundland has pleaded guilty after it continued to operate despite a leak in 2013 that spilled about 6,000 litres of crude o...

ROUYN NORANDA, Que. - The photo shows a bearded, tattooed barber lying on his side on the floor, using a pair of clippers to trim the hair of the young boy lying facedown beside him. Francis “Fr...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick’s famous Miramichi River was once the largest salmon-producing river in North America, drawing the famous and the powerful keen to fly fish there. But the number of s...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government is seeking feedback on a legal age of 19 for marijuana use, with sales through a Crown corporation like the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation. The province launched a...

TORONTO - Ontario’s premier said she’d welcome U.S. President Donald Trump’s education secretary to visit the province’s public schools if she chooses to reschedule a cancelled...

OTTAWA - Indigenous adults who were taken from their families between the 1960s and 1980s hope an agreement in principle reached with Ottawa will halt the practice of separating Aboriginal children fr...

OTTAWA - Some of the records detailing painful abuses suffered by residential school students will be destroyed as soon as two years from now following a Supreme Court ruling that settles the document...

OTTAWA - Canada’s national unemployment rate was 6.2 per cent in September. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland and Labrador 15.1 per c...

OTTAWA - A quick look at September employment (previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 6.2 per cent (6.2) Employment rate: 61.6 per cent (61.6) Labour force participation rate: 65.6 per cent (...