Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - The crime-fighting potential of police street checks must be weighed against the possible negative impact on racialized communities, says an independent expert examining the practice in Hali...

Michael Ableman has achieved something many thought impossible: creating thriving urban farms on pavement and contaminated soil in one of Canada’s poorest neighbourhoods. Sole Food Street Farms ...

HALIFAX - Liana Brittain says each additional day with her husband would have been a precious gift, but a gap in Canada’s assisted-suicide law cut those short. Bill C-14 revolutionized end-of-li...

Six stories in the news for Monday, Sept. 18 --- MORNEAU PUTS SQUEEZE ON NDP OVER TAX CHANGES Finance Minister Bill Morneau is putting the squeeze on federal New Democrats, chiding them for failing to...

OTTAWA - One of two British Columbia women challenging the federal government’s restrictive law on medically assisted dying has finally been able to end her suffering with the help of a doctor. ...

VANCOUVER - The RCMP has launched at least 20 investigations involving dozens of vendors shipping fentanyl from China as Canada grapples with a record number of illicit opioid deaths, the force’...

OTTAWA - The inclusion of the phrase Islamophobia in a hotly debated motion passed by the House of Commons last year was meant as an example of forms of racism, the Liberal MP who sponsored the propos...

OTTAWA - A jousting match erupted Monday between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer as the Liberal government’s plan to end “unfair” tax advantages f...

WASHINGTON - There must be an answer. Whatever is harming U.S. diplomats in Havana, it has eluded the doctors, scientists and intelligence analysts scouring for answers. Investigators have chased many...

CONKLIN, Alta. - Alberta’s Indigenous relations minister is apologizing after provincial fish and wildlife officers seized dozens of smoked fish from an annual Metis cultural camp. A statement i...