Category Archives: Canada

Montreal’s Just for Laughs comedy festival is throwing its support behind a Quebec comedian who was ordered to pay damages to a young artist he mocked onstage. The internationally renowned festi...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says circumstantial evidence can be enough to convict someone of possessing child pornography. In a decision Friday, the high court ruled unanimously that the Crow...

MONTREAL - When pop superstar Celine Dion brings her summer tour to Montreal beginning on Sunday, Estevam Peric will be in the audience for all 10 shows. Peric, who moved to Montreal from South Americ...

Five stories in the news today from The Canadian Press: --- BAIL DECISION FOR TORONTO POLICE OFFICER EXPECTED TODAY A Toronto police officer sentenced to six years for gunning down a troubled teen Sam...

VANCOUVER - An Angus Reid Institute online poll has found that most respondents support a tax on foreign buyers of Metro Vancouver homes but at the same time doubt how effective the move will be at co...

TORONTO - A Toronto police officer sentenced to six years for gunning down a teen on an empty streetcar three years ago has been granted bail while he appeals the conviction. The appeal judge, Justice...

OTTAWA - Demands for answers and better police training were mixed with tears and sorrow as family, friends and members of Ottawa’s tight-knitted Muslim community memorialized a Somali-Canadian ...

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia couple found guilty of terrorism charges have had their verdicts tossed out in a scathing court decision that flays the RCMP for its “egregious” conduct in m...

OTTAWA - The Alberta wildfires torched the Canadian economy in May, driving the country into its worst one-month performance since the darkest days of the Great Recession seven years ago. On Friday, S...

PHILADELPHIA - Hillary Clinton used the biggest speech of her career to reach across the political aisle to voters mortified by their own party’s choice, casting the stakes of the election as fa...