Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - A Quebec court judge convicted a provincial police officer Friday of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a teenager in 2014. The ruling triggered a strongly worded condemnation from the u...

OTTAWA - The winner of the first week back from summer on Parliament Hill? A banner-dragging aircraft-for-rent. On Monday, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation hired one to welcome MPs back to Ottawa for...

CALGARY - Mayors from both ends of the proposed Energy East pipeline are calling for the National Energy Board to reverse its requirement that upstream and downstream emissions be included in its revi...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada has imposed sanctions against key figures in the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Freeland says the targeted sanctions are...

OTTAWA - The Conservatives and NDP are coming out against the Trudeau government’s new access to information bill, saying it falls short of Liberal promises to increase transparency. Opposition ...

TORONTO - With temperatures expected to top 30 Celsius this weekend and humidex values forecast to be pushing 40 degrees, Toronto’s ombudsman is calling on the city’s landlords to “t...

MONTREAL - Ontario provincial police say they transferred the suspect at the centre of last week’s Amber Alert case into the custody of Quebec authorities. The 41-year-old suspect was transporte...

VANCOUVER - Warner Bros. Television says the safety of the cast and crew of its Vancouver-based “Riverdale” set is of “paramount importance.” The studio is speaking out in the ...

CAPE DORSET, Nunavut - RCMP from Cape Dorset in Nunavut say they have arrested a man who evaded them by living outside the community for almost three months. David Mikkigak is a suspect in several cri...

OTTAWA - The devastation wrought by hurricane Maria is hampering plans to evacuate more than 150 Canadian students from the storm-ravaged Caribbean island of Dominica. Damaged infrastructure, non-func...