Category Archives: Canada

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Public Insurance has revoked a Star Trek fan’s personalized licence plate after receiving complaints that its message - ASIMIL8 - is offensive to indigenous people. Nick Trol...

CRANBROOK, B.C. - A lawyer for a Mormon fundamentalist leader says he will be seeking a stay of a polygamy charge because the evidence being used in the B.C. Supreme Court trial was already presented ...

VANCOUVER - Without a change in government, British Columbia is likely to remain a “wild west” of campaign finance, where wealthy corporations and unions are free to donate unlimited amoun...

OTTAWA - A former officer stationed at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt in British Columbia has been charged with sexual assault. National Defence says in a news release that the assault was alleged to ...

MONTREAL - Bombardier and the federal government have rejected Boeing’s claim in a complaint filed with the U.S. government that its Canadian rival has dumped its new CSeries commercial jet into...

CALGARY - A neurologist says there was nothing doctors could do to save a Calgary gas station employee brought to hospital after a hit-and-run. Maryam Rashidi, 35, was trying to stop a driver from lea...

OTTAWA - If there’s one thing that stands out in court documents outlining the RCMP’s case against Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, it’s the extremely cutthroat nature of military procureme...

OTTAWA - Five things justice ministers from across the country are expected to talk about a meeting in Gatineau, Que., Friday. 1) R. v. Jordan. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees someone ch...

TORONTO - Ontario’s Liberal government delivered its first balanced budget in a decade on Thursday. Here are five things you need to know about the financial plan: POLITICAL CONTEXT: The $141-bi...

TORONTO - After years of restricting health-care funding growth, the Ontario budget released Thursday promises new money to reduce wait times and increase capacity at overcrowded hospitals, as well as...