Category Archives: Canada

EDSON, Alta. - RCMP say a cyclist who was killed in a collision in western Alberta was an off-duty officer with the Edson detachment. Mounties say they responded to a call Wednesday night near Edson w...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia is shifting from recycling tires to burning them, prompting anger from environmental groups and a company that has invested $5 million to find fresh uses for the scrap rubber. Th...

HALIFAX - An endangered North Atlantic right whale has been freed after getting entangled in fishing gear near the area where six other whales were found dead. Tonya Wimmer of the Marine Animal Respon...

HAMBURG - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s sunny ways will be tested over the next few days amid tensions both inside and outside the gates of the G20 summit in Germany, where tens of thousands o...

VANCOUVER - A timeline of the delays in one case that led a B.C. Supreme Court judge to decide it should be thrown out: Jan. 15, 2012: Police find a marijuana grow-op while searching a home in Chilliw...

OTTAWA - The federal government has let the provinces and territories know how much they will receive under a portion of the new long-term infrastructure program. The figures below represent each regi...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada is upholding procedures that permit shortcuts for allowing a motorist’s breathalyzer test results into evidence - even in cases where demanding the breath sa...

OTTAWA - The federal government is hiring the former chief financial officer at one of Canada’s largest banks to help oversee its new infrastructure-financing agency. Janice Fukakusa is being na...

Here are short descriptions of some cases from across Canada that have been thrown out over the timely access to justice: Sivaloganathan Thanabalasingham, a Quebecer who saw a second-degree murder cha...

VANCOUVER - Provinces have brought in new procedures to speed up the justice system following last year’s Supreme Court of Canada ruling in the Jordan case, which set tight time limits for trial...