Category Archives: Canada

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, April 12 --- YOUSAFZAI CHARMS, CHALLENGES PARLIAMENT: The teenage Nobel Peace Prize winner who famously survived a Taliban bullet in 2012 is now an honorar...

Dr. Mark Wainberg was being remembered Wednesday by Canadian LGBT activists and fellow scientists as a groundbreaking HIV researcher and passionate advocate for people living with the disease. The 71-...

Halifax will again discuss what it might do about sites named for Edward Cornwallis, the city’s controversial founder who issued a bounty on the scalps of Mi’kmaq men, women and children. ...

MONTREAL - Quebec’s director of criminal and penal prosecutions says it will appeal a decision that saw a man accused of murder set free due to delays in getting his case to trial. The Crown say...

CRANBROOK, B.C. - A single trial will be held for two men from Bountiful, B.C., who are charged with polygamy. The lawyer for Winston Blackmore, who is accused of having two dozen wives, asked the cou...

TORONTO - Ontario’s two largest police forces have stepped up training for their officers to better detect drugged driving as legislation on legalizing marijuana looms in Ottawa. Both Toronto po...

VANCOUVER - A spokesman for British Columbia’s police watchdog says a court ruling involving Victoria’s suspended police chief over sexually charged Twitter messages risks undermining the ...

OTTAWA - Montreal-area MP Alexandre Boulerice is supporting caucus colleague Peter Julian in the race for the NDP leadership. Boulerice told reporters Wednesday that in his opinion, Julian offers a pr...

TORONTO - An Ontario couple found guilty of first-degree murder in the brutal beating of the man’s teenage daughter has lost a bid to have their convictions overturned. Fedrick and Elizabeth Gay...

FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick government says testing has revealed that a Fredericton suburb was once home to an indigenous encampment that is one of the oldest sites in northeastern North America. ...