Category Archives: Canada

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...

EDMONTON - Andre De Grasse might be a wealthy young man, but he’s not flashing diamond watches or living in a posh penthouse apartment. The 21-year-old from Markham, Ont., turned pro this season...

CALGARY - An Alberta review board hearing began Tuesday for a man found not criminally responsible for the stabbing deaths of five young people at a Calgary house party in 2014. Matthew de Grood is in...

HALIFAX - She was born deaf, and surrendered to the Nova Scotia SPCA as “untrainable.” But Seven, a suspected border collie who was rescued as a three-month-old puppy, recently received th...

LVIV, Ukraine - A show of force capped Justin Trudeau’s six-day swing through eastern Europe on Tuesday, underlining the risks and challenges Canada faces in an increasingly volatile and politic...