Canada

Quebec City Halloween stabbing suspect described as calm, co-operative after arrest

QUEBEC - Police and first responders who engaged with the man accused in Quebec City's Halloween 2020 stabbing murders encountered a serene suspect who kept quiet under hours of questioning, a jury tr...

Apr 20, 2022

Quebec rights commission drops discrimination cases after Supreme Court's Ward ruling

MONTREAL - An October Supreme Court decision hailed by some as a victory for free speech is leading Quebec's human rights commission to drop dozens of cases involving allegations of discriminatory com...

Apr 20, 2022

Lionel Desmond fatality inquiry: federal lawyer defends role of Veterans Affairs

PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. - A Nova Scotia inquiry investigating why a former Afghanistan war veteran killed his family and himself in 2017 heard Tuesday from a federal lawyer who defended the work of Vete...

Apr 20, 2022

Systemic failures and racism: Hearings for Desmond inquiry conclude in Nova Scotia

PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. - More than five years after Afghanistan war veteran Lionel Desmond killed three family members and himself in their rural Nova Scotia home, a provincial fatality inquiry conclud...

Apr 20, 2022

B.C. high court certifies former flight attendant's class-action suit against WestJet

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Court of Appeal has ruled a former flight attendant's class-action lawsuit alleging breach of contract against WestJet can proceed. The decision from a three-member pa...

Apr 20, 2022

Canada struggling to process Afghan refugees, Taliban 'not exactly being helpful': PM

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the circumstances in Afghanistan are "heartbreaking" but Canada is facing challenges in processing refugees trying to flee the war-torn country. Trudeau, wh...

Apr 20, 2022

Trudeau says heavy artillery coming for Ukraine, but stays mum on details

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau isn't going to provide more details about his government's pledge to send a new round of military aid to Ukraine - at least not yet. The prime minister said Wedn...

Apr 20, 2022

RCMP's inability to track officers during N.S. killings questioned at inquiry

HALIFAX - Lawyers at the public inquiry into Canada's worst mass shooting are asking why - in an era when teens use apps to locate each other - the RCMP lacked technology to track their officers on fo...

Apr 20, 2022

Quebec judge bans father from taking son to protests against COVID-19 health orders

QUEBEC - A Quebec judge has ruled a mother can have her young son vaccinated against the novel coronavirus without the father's consent and ordered the father not to take the child to COVID-19 protest...

Apr 20, 2022

Southern Alberta town council votes against ending century-old alcohol ban

RAYMOND, ALBERTA - The council of a southern Alberta town that has been dry for more than a century has voted against a motion to allow restaurants to serve alcohol. Six out of seven councillors in th...

Apr 20, 2022