Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - An Ottawa rabbi says she was shocked to find a red swastika and anti-Semitic slur spray-painted on her front door in the dead of night. The attack, which took place very late Monday or in the...

VANCOUVER - Joseph Boyden and Yann Martel are among the prominent Canadian authors who have signed an open letter demanding an external investigation of how the University of British Columbia handled ...

BRANDON, Man. - A Manitoba teenager who promoted terrorist activity online and urged people to “strike from within” apologized in court Tuesday and said he had not thought about the possib...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick is introducing legislation to end mandatory coroners’ investigations in assisted suicides. Justice Minister Denis Landry says the modernization of the Coroners Act me...

MARRAKECH, Morocco - The momentum behind the movement for global reductions in greenhouse gas emissions is “irresistible” despite the recent election of Donald Trump, Canada’s enviro...

HALIFAX - The parents of a young Chinese woman who died of alcohol poisoning after a night of drinking inside a Dalhousie University residence are suing the school for alleged negligence. In a stateme...

WINNIPEG - A Manitoba grand chief is asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to help a remote First Nation left in crisis after a fire destroyed the community’s only grocery store and band office. ...

HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia man who used a claw hammer and bat to bludgeon his common-law wife and her daughter to death in 2013 was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday without chance of parole for 18 yea...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government faced fresh accusations of misleading the public on Tuesday after the country’s top soldier said Canadian troops have been allowed to fire first in Iraq. Governme...

MONTREAL - An ex-aide to Michael Applebaum testified he wore a wire in an attempt to help police extract a confession in 2013 from the then-interim Montreal mayor. But Applebaum offered little in conv...