Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Canada’s justice minister is wrapping up a visit to South Africa, where she met with Desmond Tutu, the activist and former bishop best known around the world for standing in opposition ...

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $24 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. That means the grand prize for the next draw on April 7 will grow to approximately $33 million....

REGINA - A lawyer representing the family of a Regina woman who died after plunging 10 storeys down a hotel laundry chute says the investigation into her death was botched and race played a factor. "W...

VICTORIA - A special prosecutor has been appointed to help police in British Columbia investigate a Nanaimo city council member who the province’s Criminal Justice Branch says was arrested for a...

Highlights from the news file for Friday, March 31 --- MCDONALD’S CANADA WEBSITE HACKED: McDonald’s Canadian subsidiary says hackers breached the job section of its website, compromising t...

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - A man who had 101 dogs seized from his house in southern Alberta has voluntarily surrendered the animals to the Alberta SPCA. Roland Lines of the Alberta SPCA says they went to the...

OTTAWA - Talk of pending pot legislation and Conservative membership drives consumed Parliament Hill conversation this week, filling the void left by MPs who returned to their ridings to discuss the p...

Toronto Public Health officials say the risk is low, but they are warning people who flew on a number of flights recently that they may have been exposed to the measles. The agency has issued a news r...

VICTORIA - British Columbia’s auditor general says political partisanship appears to have crept into taxpayer-funded government advertising, prompting her call Friday for tougher monitoring guid...

TORONTO - A Canadian man who tried to organize an aid shipment to relatives stranded in a conflict-ridden area of Libya says he recently found out most of his family members had died during his fruitl...