Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - It’s been dubbed the innovation-and-skills budget, the feminist budget, the do-nothing budget, the do-it-later budget, the wait-and-see budget. Whether or not you think the 278-page emp...

OTTAWA - Human remains found in a French field have been confirmed as being those of a Canadian soldier from Calgary who died in the First World War. The Department of National Defence says Sgt. James...

OTTAWA - Veterans Affairs Minister Kent Hehr has all but ruled out a return to the old way injured veterans received pensions, setting up a potentially vicious fight with some of those hurt in uniform...

MONTREAL - A former Montreal politician and ex-police officer who pleaded guilty to sexually touching a minor has been sentenced to six months behind bars. Gilles Deguire’s sentence also include...

EDMONTON - A lawyer with a group representing two Alberta private schools says they’re following the law on gay-straight alliances. Education Minister David Eggen on Thursday ordered Harvest Bap...

OTTAWA - The Governor General’s office says a retired soldier who was court-martialled for wearing Afghanistan and Somalia medals and parachute wings he wasn’t entitled to at a Remembrance...

WINNIPEG - A judge says DNA evidence will be allowed at the retrial of a man accused of killing a teenage girl more than three decades ago. Mark Grant is charged with second-degree murder in the death...

CRANBROOK, B.C. - A British Columbia man is offering a cautionary tale after surviving an avalanche he says tossed him more than a kilometre down a mountain in just 30 seconds. Twenty-five-year-old Ca...

UCLUELET, B.C. - A popular beach along the West Coast of Vancouver Island has been closed as a wolf prowls in the area of the national park. Parks Canada says its staff are trying to restore a balance...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government has withdrawn a man’s eponymous personalized licence plate, saying Lorne Grabher’s surname is offensive to women when viewed on his car bumper. Grabher...