Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The political class was sent reeling again this week with the shock - now sickeningly familiar - of another apparent terrorist attack, this time in Nice, France. Sorrow quickly turned to desp...

MONTREAL - The accused in Quebec’s 2012 election-night shooting has dismissed the notion the attack was motivated against the Parti Quebecois. Richard Henry Bain testified at his first-degree mu...

HALIFAX - The Halifax taxi industry is in crisis after four alleged sexual assaults by drivers in three months have left customers frightened to take a cab, the head of a drivers’ association sa...

OTTAWA - The Ukrainian embassy in Ottawa says one of its citizens died in a deadly truck attack in France last week but won’t confirm whether the victim is a missing student studying in Canada. ...

WINNIPEG - A woman accused of hiding the remains of six infants in a storage locker never appeared to be pregnant, her adult son testified Monday. The son, who cannot be identified under a court-order...

OTTAWA - Eight Canadian fighter jets have been deployed on a massive training exercise in the Pacific, despite Liberal government warnings the country does not have enough such aircraft to defend Nort...

OTTAWA - Signing a free-trade deal with China would allow Canada to increase its exports by $7.7 billion a year, Conservative leadership candidate Maxime Bernier said Monday. Such an agreement would a...

OTTAWA - As the Conservatives push for more help for Yazidis fleeing persecution at the hands of Islamic militants, new information suggests their efforts to do so while in government were minimal. Da...

Highlights from the news file for Monday, July 18 SCATHING REPORT DETAILS WIDESPREAD RUSSIAN DOPING: A scathing report detailing a complex system of widespread, state-sponsored doping in Russia - a sc...

OTTAWA - The Turkish government faced accusations Monday of engaging in a “witch hunt” for arresting or firing thousands of judges and prosecutors following the weekend’s failed coup...