Category Archives: Canada

LEVIS, Que. - There will be no Quebec sovereignty referendum for at least another six years if the new Parti Quebecois leader becomes premier in 2018 and stays true to his promise. Jean-Francois Lisee...

REGINA - The family of a missing 17-year-old girl are offering a $25,000 reward for information that helps finds her. Mekayla Bali was first reported missing on April 12. She was last seen at the bus ...

VANCOUVER - Foreign workers who have accused a Vancouver-based company of human rights abuses at an African mine will have their case heard in the Canadian legal system. In a judgment released Thursda...

CALGARY - A transit official says human error is to blame for a Calgary commuter train that crashed last month during peak morning rush hour. The light-rail train failed to stop as it was approaching ...

WINNIPEG - A Manitoba politician wants obese people protected from discrimination under the province’s human rights code. Jon Gerrard, one of only three Liberal legislature members, has introduc...

OTTAWA - A B.C. woman whose four children were abducted by her ex-husband to Iran says she was shocked to see Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion make a dismissive thumbs-down gesture when her orde...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is transferring control over the legislature’s public rooms and outside grounds from government departments to the Speaker’s office - a move the Oppositi...

QUEBEC - A joke by Quebec’s native affairs minister stereotyping indigenous peoples’ concept of time did not go down well with at least one Cree official Thursday. Speaking at a news confe...

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Oct. 6 RCMP COMMISSIONER APOLOGIZES: RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson apologized Thursday to hundreds of current and former female officers and employees who w...

OTTAWA - Free, prior and informed indigenous consent means the right to say yes or no to major resource projects, the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations told an oil industry-sponsored ene...