Category Archives: Canada

CALGARY - A Canadian journalist who spent almost two years jailed in Egypt says the families of two people detained in the Middle East can’t depend on the federal government to win their freedom...

YELLOWKNIFE - The Northwest Territories has promised an independent investigation into the death of an aboriginal elder assumed to be drunk when he was suffering from a stroke. “I believe that t...

WINNIPEG - The federal government wants to sit down and find a settlement to lawsuits over the ’60s Scoop, Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett said Wednesday. Bennett said she is open to...

TORONTO - When Jeff and Jen Malcolm watch the Tragically Hip’s big show in Kingston, Ont., on Saturday, it will be more than just a concert. The evening, expected to be tinged with sadness and c...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government is looking at making counter-radicalization counselling mandatory for people under anti-terrorism peace bonds, the public safety minister says. Ralph Goodale floated th...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Two Texas men who tried to bring hidden guns along on separate Canadian vacations last weekend have lost their guns, been fined and sent home. The men, both retirees in their 50s fr...

ALEXANDRIA, Ont. - Police have charged an eastern Ontario man after he allegedly kicked and threw rocks at a visually impaired woman’s service dog. Ontario Provincial Police say the incident beg...

ALBANY, N.Y. - The second-oldest confirmed shipwreck in the Great Lakes, an American-built, Canadian-owned sloop that sank in Lake Ontario more than 200 years ago, has been found, a team of underwater...

BRIDGEWATER, N.S. - The “large-scale” case of six teenaged boys accused of keeping intimate photos on a Dropbox account will be an early test of a law designed to combat the unwanted onlin...

Six stories in the news today from The Canadian Press: ____ TEENS IN NOVA SCOTIA COURT TO FACE CHARGES UNDER NEW LAW Six teenaged boys are expected in a Nova Scotia court today to face the first charg...