Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - A young Halifax mother has been jailed 30 months on pimping-related charges involving two girls aged 14 and 15. Tashlynn Shaw admitted driving the girls to meet clients, booking hotels for t...

HALIFAX - More than 2,100 Nova Scotians have been given big-dose prescriptions of highly addictive painkillers this year, and addictions experts say the “disturbing” number demands the pro...

EDMONTON - The election of Donald Trump as the next U.S. president shouldn’t affect Alberta’s efforts to combat climate change, the province’s environment minister said Monday. Trump...

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia man accused of posting extremist Muslim propaganda online told police officers he doesn’t see a problem with his comments inspiring someone to shoot a Canadian sol...

CALGARY - The Jamaican bobsled team has a reliable set of wheels to get to its next race. The team’s van broke down in Calgary on the weekend on the way to a race at Canada Olympic Park. The ath...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government will introduce legislation Tuesday to repeal a Criminal Code provision on anal intercourse that critics and courts say is unconstitutional and discriminates against gay...

TORONTO - Two crew members of a Porter Airlines flight en route from Ottawa to Toronto were slightly hurt Monday when a plane narrowly avoided a mid-flight collision with what may have been a drone, t...

OTTAWA - Alternatives to criminalizing a variety of illicit drugs in Canada could result in lower rates of use and fewer harms such as addiction, overdoses and infectious diseases, says an internal fe...

NORTH CARIBOU LAKE , Ont. - A water main line in a northwestern Ontario First Nation has been fixed but the community will remain under a boil-water advisory until tests confirm there is no contaminat...

TORONTO - The Toronto police’s hate crime unit is investigating posters in the city that urged white people “tired of political correctness” and “questioning when immigration w...