Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - A pre-trial hearing for a Halifax man accused of murdering an off-duty police officer will be held behind closed doors. Justice Josh Arnold agreed Thursday to the Crown’s unusual reque...

TORONTO - Ontario’s top court has ordered a new murder trial for an ex-soldier who walked free because his case took too long to be heard. The Crown had appealed a judge’s decision to stay...

VANCOUVER - Federal NDP leadership hopeful Jagmeet Singh has clinched the backing of veteran politician and former leadership rival, Peter Julian. Julian says Singh represents the diversity the NDP ne...

VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has closed the door on decriminalizing illicit drugs to combat a national overdose crisis but British Columbia’s addictions minister says unprecedented ...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Social services officials in British Columbia’s southern Interior hope at least one large centre for wildfire evacuees can be closed this weekend, despite warnings that the wild...

INDIAN BROOK, N.S. - It’s been eight years since the body of Tanya Brooks was discovered in the basement window well of a Halifax school. The murder of the 36-year-old mother of five from Millbr...

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...

HALIFAX - As the new school year begins, it appears most Nova Scotia school boards will have hired enough staff for the Liberal government’s promised expansion of pre-primary classes for four-ye...

Toronto-born Graydon Carter is leaving Vanity Fair after 25 years as the magazine’s editor. In an article on its website, accompanied by a portrait from famed photographer Annie Leibovitz, Vanit...

Toronto’s deputy mayor is apologizing for comments he made about the city’s outgoing chief planner after backlash from critics who called his words sexist. Denzil Minnan-Wong told the Toro...