Category Archives: Canada

SAINT-JEROME, Que. - The trial of a Quebec man facing two counts of first-degree murder heard from a first witness today at a courthouse north of Montreal. Ugo Fredette pleaded not guilty at...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba's political leaders made their final pitches to voters Monday - one day before an election that determines whether the Progressive Conservatives win a second mandate after three ye...

OTTAWA - A former Supreme Court justice has been named to a panel overseeing the country's security agencies. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Marie Deschamps will become a member of the National Se...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government has started a website to allow people to submit information to its inquiry into foreign funding of environmental groups. Inquiry commissioner Steve Allan says he is a...

OTTAWA - A Calgary organization that argues climate change is nothing close to a global emergency says Elections Canada is right to keep a close eye on campaign-period communications from th...

EDMONTON - A political scientist says a federal report confirming the use of false social media posts to try to manipulate last spring's Alberta election points to dangers for the upcoming federa...

HALIFAX - Dorian slammed into the Maritimes on Saturday, its powerful gusts uprooting trees, tearing off roofs and yanking down power lines - leaving more than 450,000 pe...

OTTAWA - Canada has been treating Indigenous issues as higher priorities since the last federal election but more work needs to be done, says Assembly of First Nations Chief Perry Bellegarde. The...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Progressive Conservative Leader Brian Pallister has made a final pitch to voters ahead of tomorrow's provincial election. Pallister, surrounded by his party's candidates outside th...

MONTREAL - Teen environmental activist Greta Thunberg will be in Montreal at the end of the month to take part in a climate march. The 16-year-old Swedish climate activist announced her presence at th...