Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Money will begin to flow next summer in Ontario through the first of an expected 13 funding agreements for a new rent supplement for low-income households, as officials wo...

OTTAWA - Alexander Vavilov, the Toronto-born son of Russian spies, breathed a sigh of relief Thursday after the Supreme Court declared him a Canadian citizen and ended a long-running le...

Steven Lee has spoken in hundreds of classrooms around the country about challenges for today's young people posed by everything from genetic engineering to artificial intelligence to climate cha...

OTTAWA - A judge on Thursday dismissed all charges against former Afghanistan hostage Joshua Boyle, who had been accused of assaulting his wife Caitlan Coleman. It took Ontario Court Ju...

TORONTO - Three teens who had pleaded guilty to assaulting and sexually assaulting two fellow students at an all-boys Catholic school in Toronto smiled, cried and hugged their families on Thursda...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he's unconvinced that decriminalizing hard drugs is a "panacea" to the country's ongoing opioids crisis, and other options need a chance before conside...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has blown the whistle on a federal regulatory decision that allowed viewers to watch keenly anticipated American commercials during the Super Bowl b...

VICTORIA - A British Columbia father who committed the "vengeful" and "unspeakable" murders of his two daughters on Christmas Day in 2017 has been sentenced to life in prison without chance of pa...

Wet. Cold. In the dark. And puzzled. That about sums up how the weather in 2019 left Canadians feeling, says David Phillips, Environment Canada's chief meteorologist. "It's almost as if normal doesn't...

VICTORIA - A Vancouver Island school district is embarking on what could be a difficult exercise to rename an elementary school named after a long-serving, controversial former municipa...