Category Archives: Canada

VANCOUVER - Advocates on both sides of a legal debate over the future of public health care in Canada are offering opposing diagnoses on how to rejuvenate what many consider an overburdened medical sy...

VICTORIA - British Columbia’s former agriculture minister and member of the provincial legislature Pat Pimm is accused of allegedly assaulting his wife. The province’s Criminal Justice Bra...

CHILLIWACK, B.C. - Some suspects are tougher to take into custody than others, but Mounties in Chilliwack, B.C., had no trouble with one unusual arrest. Officers were called to an area behind a home i...

TORONTO - A man who killed a Toronto university student from China in an attack partly witnessed via webcam has been denied a request for a government-paid lawyer to represent him in an appeal of his ...

KINGSTON, Ont. - Police in Kingston, Ont., say a “designated driver” is facing impaired driving charges after allegedly blowing more than two times the legal limit. They say an officer not...

CALGARY - A lawyer presenting the case against a federal judge over comments he made to a sexual assault complainant says there’s sufficient evidence to remove Robin Camp from the bench. Marjori...

STEWIACKE, N.S. - The RCMP says it is staying “neutral” as AltaGas Ltd. and Mi’kmaq protesters are at odds over aboriginal presence on a tiny island near the energy company’s p...

VANCOUVER - Members of an expert panel tasked with examining the University of British Columbia’s approach to sex assaults say more hard work lies ahead, after the institution published a critic...

KINGSTON, Ont. - A southwestern Ontario man is facing a fraud charge for allegedly advertising Tragically Hip tickets online and not delivering the product. Police say a Kingston, Ont., man responded ...

OTTAWA - The federal NDP is trying to find a path through political weeds to the fall sitting of Parliament, with plans to focus on issues including climate change and health-accord negotiations. The ...