Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The RCMP needs to work in partnership with Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples in order to improve relations between the force and the country’s indigenous communities, commissioner Bob P...

VANCOUVER - Anti-violence advocates say physically abused women need more than police assistance to leave harmful relationships and they’re calling on governments to spend more on community supp...

MONTREAL - A Canadian-Iranian journalist who suffered the same plight as a Montreal academic currently jailed in Iran has some advice for her supporters and the federal government: speak out early and...

TORONTO - Ontario spent more than $44 million preparing for a correctional and probation workers’ strike that never happened, The Canadian Press has learned. The Liberal government has publicly ...

HALIFAX - A gay musician says he’s angry and upset that he heard someone yell a homophobic slur at him during a recent performance in Halifax that he was then asked to cut short. “I’...

CALGARY - It appears one of Canada’s largest media companies won’t be appealing the result of a lengthy defamation lawsuit involving former television war correspondent Arthur Kent. Last m...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says Ocean Brands is recalling some of its tuna because of leaking cans. The products being recalled are six packs of Ocean Brands flaked white tuna and so...

Seven stories in the news today from The Canadian Press: --- FAMILY PLEADS FOR RETURN OF MISSING CALGARY GIRL Relatives of a missing five-year-old girl have pleaded for the safe return of a “viv...

TORONTO - Here are five things about The classical-pop group The Tenors, who struck a sour note with many Canadians on Tuesday when a member of the quartet altered the lyrics to O Canada before the Ma...

Here is the text of an apology issued by The Tenors after a lyric to O Canada was changed ahead of baseball’s All-Star Game on Tuesday night. --- “The Tenors are deeply sorry for the disre...