Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The Liberal government will introduce legislation later this year to erase past convictions for sexual activity with a same-sex partner, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Wednesday as m...

EDMONTON - An LBGT activist says she’s relieved and grateful police have charged an Edmonton blogger with a hate crime for allegedly posting online threats against specific people. Marni Panas c...

TORONTO - The chief economist of the Canadian Real Estate Association says homeowners in the Greater Toronto Area should brace themselves for a possible tax on speculative home purchases. Gregory Klum...

TORONTO - Some thirty floors above Toronto’s streets, a select group of people caught a glimpse of the future. The future is smart, with technology no longer limited to phones in pockets or watc...

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, June 14 --- GUNMAN WOUNDS U.S. LAWMAKER, THEN KILLED BY POLICE: A Republican-hating gunman who had spewed rage upon U.S. President Donald Trump and his par...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has named a veteran northern educator and counsellor to be commissioner of the Northwest Territories. Margaret Thom is a former deputy commissioner of the territ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has named a Nova Scotia judge as the province’s new lieutenant-governor. Arthur LeBlanc, who has been a judge of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia since 199...

WINNIPEG - Police are searching for a suspect who threw a large piece of concrete at a Winnipeg transit driver and hit him in the head. The driver was not badly hurt. Police say a man got on the bus a...

CALGARY - Police have charged a 42-year-old Calgary man for allegedly filming women for at least five years without their knowledge and posting their images to a Twitter account called “Canada C...

HALIFAX - A woman who broke up with her fiance after a fight over wedding expenses can keep the engagement ring, a Halifax adjudicator has ruled. Devin Sherrington had sued his would-be bride, Lauren ...