Category Archives: Canada

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, July 12 — FAMILY PLEADS FOR RETURN OF MISSING GIRL: Distraught family members are pleading for the safe return of a five-year-old Calgary girl whose mo...

QUEBEC - A Quebec-based oil and gas company is seeking an injunction to force the provincial government and a private firm to invest in exploratory drilling on Anticosti Island. Petrolia Inc. (TSX-V:P...

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Health officials say residents of a northern Alberta city ravaged by wildfire in May now have access to most of the health-care services that were available before the blaze. Th...

CALGARY - A cloak of silence was imposed Tuesday on an Alberta Review Board hearing for a Calgary man found not criminally responsible in the stabbing deaths of five young people. The two-day hearing ...

CALGARY - Matthew de Grood is facing a review board hearing after being found not criminally responsible in the stabbing deaths of five young people at a house party in Calgary in 2014. Here are some ...

OTTAWA - The federal government’s push for a national housing strategy may fall short of its vaunted goals if it doesn’t make human rights a central pillar of the plan, a UN housing watchd...

HALIFAX - A Dutch firm that calls the Bay of Fundy “the holy grail” aims to exploit the bay’s powerful tidal currents by testing a floating turbine system starting next year. Halifax...

HALIFAX - A much-needed doctor recruited from overseas to serve a small Nova Scotia town has had his medical licence revoked because he under-reported his qualifications. It seems an unlikely outcome ...

TORONTO - A police watchdog has found that provincial officers were not racially profiling when they asked more than 100 migrant workers of colour to provide DNA samples following a sexual assault in ...

TORONTO - Ontario’s privacy commissioner is no longer taking legal action against Toronto police over the sharing of attempted suicide-related information with U.S. border services. The Informat...