Category Archives: Canada

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - A man who told his parole board hearing that he feared harming someone if he was released from prison has now pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of a British Columbia t...

MONTREAL - Two Islamic preachers accused of giving anti-Semitic sermons in 2014 won’t face charges, a spokesman for Quebec’s Crown prosecutor’s office said Thursday. Jean-Pascal Bouc...

CALGARY - Canada’s minister of sport has fond memories of when the Calgary Flames relocated to the city from Atlanta in 1980. “I remember doing a project on the Calgary Flames coming to Ca...

VICTORIA - A lawyer from Nova Scotia with experience investigating the actions of police is the new head of British Columbia’s police watchdog agency. Ron MacDonald was named as the chief civili...

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Sept. 14 --- UNITED STATES MAY NOT DEFEND CANADA FROM MISSILE: Current U.S. policy directs the American military not to defend Canada if it is targeted in a...

OTTAWA - In one of his final speeches in the House of Commons, Liberal MP Arnold Chan - who died Thursday after a three-year battle with cancer - delivered earlier this summer a poignant appeal for ci...

OTTAWA - Leaders of indigenous groups have joined a growing list of people asking the federal government to delay its plans to make recreational marijuana legal in Canada by next summer. The Metis Nat...

VICTORIA - British Columbia’s Crown prosecutors’ office says it will not file an appeal of a judge’s decision rejecting a high-risk designation for a man who killed his three childre...

TORONTO - The man heading up Ontario’s effort to lure Amazon to the province said Thursday that while the province would consider sensible incentives, the bid will not offer billions in subsidie...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s premier cautioned against moves to erase Canada’s history Thursday amid questions about a town in his province named for a contentious British general who Montreal ...