Category Archives: Canada

The members of Radiohead say they are “appalled” that charges stemming from a fatal concert stage collapse in Toronto in 2012 were stayed. On Tuesday, a judge ruled the justice system had ...

MONTREAL - Less than a week after being rebuffed by a girl he’d asked out, the man on trial in her slaying returned to a Montreal big box store and fatally stabbed her 14 times in April 2016, th...

TORONTO - Darren Fortune, a longtime rider at Toronto’s Woodbine Racetrack, was remembered Friday as a thoughtful, hard-working individual who had a passion for working with horses. Fortune died...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has cleared the path for extradition of two B.C. residents to India to face murder charges in the so-called honour killing of a young woman. In a 9-0 judgment Frid...

HALIFAX - Two men are facing drug charges after more than 250 kilograms of suspected cocaine was found hidden on a sailboat, which arrived in Nova Scotia from the Caribbean as darkness fell Sunday nig...

THUNDER BAY, Ont. - The police chief of Thunder Bay, Ont., is now expected to stand trial on charges of breach of trust and attempting to obstruct justice as early as December. Chief J.P. Levesque wai...

OTTAWA - Canada’s national unemployment rate was 6.2 per cent in August. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland and Labrador 14.7 per cent...

OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 6.2 per cent in August. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, ho...

OTTAWA - A quick look at August employment numbers (previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 6.2 per cent (6.3) Employment rate: 61.6 per cent (61.6) Labour force participation rate: 65.7 per c...

OTTAWA - The labour market expanded for a ninth-consecutive month to register its longest job-creating streak since before the financial crisis nine years ago, Statistics Canada said Friday. The incre...