Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - The federal government's appointment of Amira Elghawaby as its first special representative on combating Islamophobia has caused an uproar in Quebec and raised eyebrows elsewhere in the cou...

Two RCMP officers have been charged with manslaughter in the death of an Indigenous man in Prince George, B.C., while three of their fellow Mounties face attempting to obstruct justice charges. Here i...

OTTAWA - Canada has renewed mandatory COVID-19 testing and screening for travellers from China, Hong Kong and Macao for another two months. The government mandated pre-boarding tests for people coming...

VANCOUVER - A judge in British Columbia has acquitted a man of stabbing his partner with a kitchen knife, agreeing with defence arguments that the accused was in a drug and alcohol-induced state of "a...

EDMONTON - Alberta's Opposition leader says Premier Danielle Smith's government needs to end its long-running dalliance with pulling the province out of the Canada Pension Plan and come clean on its p...

MONTREAL - Quebec's Health Department says only residents who are considered at risk for severe COVID-19 - and who haven't already been infected - need to get a booster dose. Public health director Dr...

MONTREAL - Closing arguments are underway at the trial of a Quebec man charged in connection with the kidnapping of a couple from Upstate New York who were smuggled into the province and held captive....

OTTAWA - Foreign Minister Mlanie Joly has appointed former television journalist Tom Clark as Canada's envoy in New York City. Clark will be Canada's consul general in New York, putting him in charge ...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not look at whether the suspension of a Muslim charity should have been put on hold while an administrative challenge of the penalty played out. The Canada Re...

OTTAWA - Canada's justice minister is accusing Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives of using tragedies such as the killing of a young Ontario Provincial Police officer "to try to score political points." ...