Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The federal justice minister’s office says it spent $707,000 in legal fees following a landmark human rights tribunal decision on First Nations child welfare. Charlie Angus, an NDP MP a...

TORONTO - Health Canada has approved three supervised injection sites in Toronto, and local officials expect they will be operational be the end of the year. Necessary exemptions from the Controlled D...

OTTAWA - The remains of a New Brunswick man who died while fighting to take a French hillside during the First World War have been identified and will be given a proper burial. The Defence Department ...

TORONTO - A taxi company cannot be held liable for the alleged sexual assault of a passenger by one of its drivers, Ontario’s top court ruled on Friday. In dismissing an appeal by the complainan...

TORONTO - Geoffrey Bercarich has been making “ghost bikes” for fallen cyclists for more than a decade, but he’s never made one this small. At his Toronto home, he stands beside a chi...

Halifax’s two new ferries will be named after a poet laureate of the Mi’kmaq people and a railway dispatcher who in 1917 warned trains of an impending harbour explosion. The city announced...

CALGARY - Two brothers who randomly kidnapped a teenage girl and repeatedly sexually assaulted her will undergo further psychological tests to determine if they are criminally responsible for their ac...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - A convicted sex offender is facing a new sexual assault charge after he was placed in a special care home for people with disabilities. Andrew Michael Douglas, 29, pleaded not guilt...

SKINNERS POND, P.E.I. - More than two decades after the residents of Skinners Pond, P.E.I., began trying to scrape together the money to build a centre dedicated to the music and life of their most fa...

TORONTO - Ontario’s premier is joining a growing number of politicians condemning Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate-change agreement. Kathleen Wynne says the U.S. pr...