Category Archives: Canada

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, July 6 --- TRUDEAU TO APPEAL TO PROTESTERS ON EVE OF G20: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s sunny ways will be tested over the next few days amid tensio...

CALGARY - The Alberta Energy Regulator has laid five charges against Nexen Energy for a pipeline spill two years ago that was one of the largest in provincial history. About five million litres of emu...

VANCOUVER - More than 200 criminal cases have been tossed due to unreasonable delays after the Supreme Court of Canada’s landmark Jordan decision. Here's a look at how many cases have been staye...

VANCOUVER - The head of the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women denies the process is drifting, saying she believes it’s moving at “lightning speed.” Marion B...

REGINA - Catherine McKay’s blood alcohol level was three times the legal limit when she drove into a car carrying the Van de Vorst family in January 2016, killing a couple and their two young ch...

TORONTO - A constitutional challenge to Canada’s segregation laws should go ahead in September as scheduled despite objections from the federal government, an Ontario court ruled Thursday. In re...

VICTORIA - The steep political mountain facing John Horgan’s minority government in British Columbia was apparent in the key appointments he made to his inner circle of close advisers, say polit...

MONTREAL - The first murder suspect in Quebec to be set free after his trial exceeded the legal length limit has been deported back to Sri Lanka. Sivaloganathan Thanabalasingham left the country Wedne...

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - The mother of a girl allegedly abducted from a Saskatchewan playground says what happened to her daughter shows it can happen to anyone. The woman says she is tired of reading t...

OTTAWA - British Columbia MP Peter Julian pulled the plug Thursday on his bid to lead the federal New Democrats, saying he’d failed to raise the kind of money necessary to stay in the marathon r...