Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Facing a possible 23 years behind bars, a former Mountie who tortured and starved his young son in the basement of the family’s suburban Ottawa home apologized Thursday for being “...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - A Nunavut court says public money should pay for a lawyer to argue the appeal of a former priest serving a 19-year sentence for sexually abusing dozens of Inuit children. Eric Dejae...

OTTAWA - If cleanliness is next to godliness, Conservative leadership contender Michael Chong is all-powerful - at least in Guatemala. The MP has become the poster boy for spotless public washrooms in...

A lawyer for a Canadian man of Kazakh origins arrested as one of four suspects in a massive hack of Yahoo emails said Thursday that the charges against his client may be “politically motivated b...

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - A fire at a Syncrude oilsands facility in northern Alberta has been extinguished, two days after it broke out. The company says it is still investigating the cause of the fire, ...

HALIFAX - A facility officials say will transform a section of Halifax’s waterfront and improve the region’s prospects in the ocean technology industry has received a multimillion-dollar i...

TORONTO - The plight of a Toronto widow who lost hundreds of thousands of dollars and her home in a dating scam has prompted police to urge vigilance online. Police say the woman, whose name has not b...

TORONTO - Former “Friends” star Matthew Perry says he once beat up Justin Trudeau in grade school over “pure jealousy” of his athletic abilities. The actor, who played Chandler...

OTTAWA - The chairwoman of the Senate committee on aboriginal people is asking a Conservative senator to rethink her place on the committee after she said there were positive aspects to Canada’s...

Tired and stiff after a blast of winter weather forced major changes to their travel plans, the Queen’s Gaels finally rolled into Fredericton on Thursday afternoon just hours before their openin...