Category Archives: Canada

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, Sept. 13 ____ AMBROSE CALLS FOR UNITY AS TORY RACE HEATS UP: The Conservative leadership race is picking up steam after heavyweight would-be contender Peter ...

HALIFAX - Interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose told MPs and senators they need to earn back the trust of Atlantic Canadians, who did not elect a single Conservative last year under the leadership ...

MONTREAL - The family of a Canadian-Iranian university professor jailed in Iran says the judge in the case has refused to accept her lawyer and has appointed one to his own liking. Homa Hoodfar’...

WINNIPEG - A teenager from western Manitoba is to be sentenced next month after pleading guilty to a terrorism charge. The 17-year-old admitted on Monday to counselling the commission of an indictable...

OTTAWA - Loyce Maturu sat in the darkened railway committee room of the Parliament Buildings on Tuesday watching a video of two fellow African activists - a Kenyan mother and daughter - playing for a ...

TORONTO - Two Canadian children at the centre of a protracted custody dispute must return to Germany where their father lives over their objections and against the wishes of their mother, Ontario̵...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government is looking at bringing in new rules that would allow federally regulated employees to request changes to how and where do their jobs. Here are a few figures from a fede...

A Quebec server who gave a client salmon tartare instead of beef tartare will not face criminal charges. Crown spokesman Rene Verret says an investigation has determined there was no criminal conduct....

Alberta’s NDP government is locking in minimum-wage increases which will see workers paid $15 an hour by 2018. Here’s a look at how minimum-wage workers are paid across the country: Albert...

VICTORIA - A growing trend of vigilante stings has resulted in charges against a former deputy sheriff in British Columbia just days after a Mountie faced similar allegations. The B.C. Criminal Justic...