Category Archives: Canada

Highlights from the news file for Monday, Aug. 15 ___ GOVERNMENT OVERHAULS IMMIGRATION DETENTION SYSTEM: Immigration holding facilities in Vancouver and Laval, Que., will be replaced as part of a $138...

OTTAWA - Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould is being shielded from any funding decisions affecting a Vancouver-based, non-profit organization run by a relative. “The minister of justice takes...

HALIFAX - A Conservative senator has won more than $70,000 in legal costs from his rural Nova Scotia neighbours after they attempted to seize part of his oceanfront property. Senator Tom McInnis, a 71...

FREDERICTON - Photos of budworm moths coating trees and roadways in northern New Brunswick may be creepy, but a senior federal scientist says further study is needed to see if the sudden migration war...

TORONTO - The federal government has approved the transfer of a Canadian jailed for 30 years in Florida prisons for a murder committed when he was 18 years old. However, there was no immediate word wh...

QUEBEC - One of the Parti Quebecois leadership candidates says she will ask Quebecers a point-blank question in an independence referendum in her first mandate as premier. The would-be question from M...

The CEO of a Canadian company alleged to have knowingly delivered shoddy armoured vehicles to the U.S. military has lost his bids to stave off extradition to face fraud charges south of the border, bu...

MONTREAL - Jurors at Richard Henry Bain’s first-degree murder trial will deliberate for a fourth day after failing to reach a verdict Monday. Aside from a few minor issues, Day 3 went by without...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The prime minister’s visit to Atlantic Canada has already included one shirtless selfie - but this time, Justin Trudeau is the photobombee rather than photobomber. Comed...

OTTAWA - The federal government will soon announce a plan to bolster United Nations peace efforts in Africa, including trans-border operations, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan said Monday, as he wrappe...