Category Archives: Canada

FREDERICTON - Dennis Oland didn't receive special favours before the courts in his murder re-trial, but the case shows how money can make a difference in mounting a successful defence, say l...

OTTAWA - The federal government is committing more assistance for a northern Ontario reserve facing challenges with its water supply, Indigenous Services Minister Seamus O'Regan said Monday, adding&nb...

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - The lawyer for a man accused of murdering a police officer in Abbotsford, B.C., will not call a defence in the trial. Martin Peters, who represents Oscar Arfmann, told the...

ANEROID, Sask. - An Edmonton woman says her toddler is tired, a little scratched up and sunburned but otherwise fine after he spent overnight in a muddy trench in southwestern Saskatchewan. Keele...

TORONTO - A man evicted from his home and whose possessions were seized has launched a legal challenge to new Ontario legislation that aims to weed out illegal cannabis sales. In an unproven applicati...

OTTAWA - Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre took aim at the Liberals Monday morning for bringing back former prime ministerial aide Gerald Butts to work on their election campaign. An h...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is making an outgoing New Democrat MP the chair of a new national-security review agency. Murray Rankin has been the member of Parliament for Victoria since 2012...

OTTAWA - The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs says Canada should bail out of a plan to build a large new telescope in Hawaii on land claimed as sacred by Indigenous Hawaiians. In an open letter to Prime Mi...

TORONTO - The Canadian Press is promoting managing editor Andrea Baillie to editor-in-chief, marking the first time a woman will oversee editorial operations at the national n...

Ottawa is creating conditions for the telecom giant Huawei to create a monopoly on high-speed internet in Canada's Far North, leaving its residents vulnerable to Beijing's will, says a leading analyst...