Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Canada’s armed forces says it’s looking into a recent spate of deaths involving students or recent graduates from the Royal Military College. Four men have died since April, prom...

TORONTO - A man who pleaded guilty to participating in a plot to bomb targets in Toronto has had his day parole extended as the Parole Board of Canada found he has made a “strong beginning”...

OTTAWA - Mary Daoust has seen it all too often: women who stay in a dangerous relationship for fear of being unable to pay the bills or of getting fired amid the ensuing personal tumult. “They s...

MONTREAL - All future National Energy Board hearings into the Energy East pipeline project will be suspended until the board rules on motions demanding two panel members resign, the federal agency ann...

MONTREAL - Relatives of a Montreal-based university professor being held in an Iranian jail fear for her life as her condition has deteriorated to the point she can hardly walk or talk. Homa Hoodfar, ...

EDMONTON - Alberta’s energy minister says the violent disruptions at the Energy East pipeline hearings in Quebec are disconcerting and are hindering the debate. But Marg McCuaig-Boyd said Albert...

OTTAWA - Canada Post and its largest union have reached a tentative settlement, averting the prospect of job action this week at the postal service. The tentative agreements must still be ratified by ...

WINNIPEG - Ontario’s chief forensic pathologist says there’s no way to determine the cause of death for six infants whose remains were found in a storage locker, but the babies were certai...

NORWAY HOUSE, Man. - When Ron Evans was 17, he worked as a driver shuttling staff home after their shifts at the Norway House Indian Hospital in northern Manitoba. He’s now racking his brain try...

OTTAWA - The military’s top brass says progress has been made in the war on sexual misconduct in the ranks, as evidenced by an increase in the number of cases being reported. But they admit that...