Category Archives: Canada

The challenges of criminally prosecuting sexual assault cases have some complainants turning to human rights tribunals in an effort to bring about systemic change and seek restitution. The latest case...

Halifax has emerged as an East Coast pop music hub, exporting artists with danceable hits with spots on the charts alongside Canadian heavyweights Justin Bieber and Drake. The region’s artists w...

PLATTSBURGH, United States - As the flow of asylum-seekers crossing into Canada continues, residents in towns along the Canada-U.S. border are quietly mobilizing to help the travellers who pass throug...

Researchers say they are developing a test for bovine tuberculosis they hope could someday spare ranchers and governments from costly quarantines and mass slaughters of cattle. Scientists at the Los A...

MONCTON, N.B. - Three years after a gunman’s rampage left three Mounties dead, the RCMP itself faces trial Monday. The Labour Code trial stems from the force’s handling of the 2014 massacr...

MONTREAL - Martin Thibert, mayor of a small Quebec town by the U.S. border, was almost finished painting the interior of his kids’ public school with the help of a group of volunteers when an in...

HALIFAX - The stereotype of the “promiscuous party girl” may have factored into the acquittal of a Halifax cab driver accused of sexually assaulting a woman in his car, a review of the cas...

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $9 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. However, the guaranteed $1 million dollar prize was claimed by a ticket holder in Ontario. The...

WASHINGTON - Measures to cool the housing market in the Greater Toronto Area have received a warm response from Canada’s central banker, who said Saturday it should have some effect on runaway h...

Edmonton police have arrested a man and a woman in the case of a toddler whose body was found outside a church on the north side of the city. A police statement issued Saturday night said the two were...