Category Archives: Canada

VAUDREUIL-DORION, Que. - A man was injured on Tuesday after a gunfire exchange with police just west of Montreal, authorities said. The incident began when officers in a cruiser tried intercepting a d...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government has won a round in its battle against offshore tax cheats. Two banks have agreed to give the federal revenue minister information from the accounts of a Caribbean finan...

BANCROFT, Ont. - The court case of a Toronto Star columnist charged with assault has been postponed until next month. Rosie DiManno wasn’t in the Bancroft, Ont., courthouse Tuesday but a lawyer ...

HALIFAX - Canada needs cyberbullying laws that curb unwanted sharing of sexual pictures without always requiring police investigations, a law professor said Tuesday. Nova Scotia had a Cyber Safety Act...

LONDON - Two airline pilots charged with being drunk as they prepared to fly a passenger jet on a trans-Atlantic route to Toronto have been granted bail on condition they surrender their passports. Je...

CALGARY - A University of Calgary professor hopes his research will help firefighters spring into action more quickly when forest fires strike in remote areas. Quazi Hassan, who teaches geomatics engi...

MONTREAL - Richard Henry Bain’s longtime personal physician told his first-degree murder trial Tuesday he regrets not having referred his patient to a psychiatrist. Dr. Stan Van Duyse told juror...

OTTAWA - It remains a mystery why Canada and the U.S. are the world’s heaviest opioid users, but Health Minister Jane Philpott says divining the answer may hold the key to solving what she consi...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada is privately floating the idea of new powers that would make all of its surveys mandatory by default and force certain companies to hand over requested data, such as credit ...

TORONTO - The high-ranking Toronto police officer reprimanded for his conduct during the 2010 G20 summit is appealing his conviction. Supt. Mark Fenton was convicted by the Ontario Civilian Police Com...