Category Archives: Canada

Calgary police are again defending their actions after a video was posted to social media of several officers punching and kicking a man they were trying to arrest at the Calgary Stampede. On their Fa...

TORONTO - The first public meeting of the Ontario government’s new anti-racism directorate drew a packed and vocal crowd Thursday as Premier Kathleen Wynne said governments need to do more to ba...

OTTAWA - Canada’s army will soon be bound for Africa, Canada’s top soldier said Thursday, fuelling speculation that it will be deployed on a peacekeeping operation to control the spread of...

REGINA - Flood response has shifted to recovery mode in Saskatchewan communities hit hard by heavy rainfall earlier this week. Emergency management commissioner Duane McKay said it’s too soon to...

OTTAWA - A familiar sore spot between Ottawa and the provinces is beginning to flare up once again: how much money should the feds be handing over for health care? As efforts continue to forge a new f...

CALGARY - The Alberta Energy Regulator has introduced new rules that it says will ultimately remove unsightly and toxic tailings ponds from the oilsands mining region of northeastern Alberta. CEO Jim ...

OTTAWA - Four major trade unions have joined forces with TransCanada Corp. to push the proposed Energy East oil pipeline as a “nation-building” exercise. The alliance, symbolized by a memo...

TORONTO - A Canadian teacher convicted in Indonesia on child abuse charges marked the second anniversary of his detention on Thursday as his family called for an impartial review of his case. Neil Ban...

OTTAWA - Canada will be in the global spotlight later this week in Durban, South Africa, as it gears up for the 21st International AIDS Conference - but the glare won’t be flattering. The confer...

CALGARY - Some experts worry the continuing legal saga of a southern Alberta couple convicted of failing to get proper medical treatment for their son who died of bacterial meningitis could turn them ...