Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Lawyers anticipate a long bail hearing for an RCMP employee charged with breaching the official-secrets law. Cameron Jay Ortis, who was arrested three weeks ago, made his fourth appearance in...

OTTAWA - Police do not have the power to arrest someone who is acting lawfully simply to prevent a possible outbreak of violence or disorder, the Supreme Court of Canada decided Friday. According to t...

HALIFAX - Former Nova Scotia premier John Buchanan, whose political charm propelled his Progressive Conservatives to four consecutive majority governments, has died in Halifax at the age of 88. Buchan...

Inuit are hoping to use the alphabet to help keep their far-flung people together. Canada's national Inuit organization recently decided on a standard way to write their language that could be underst...

TORONTO - For most people, a blind date is not a life or death matter. But as I pace around my bedroom, icy hands clenched in pockets, all I can think about is the fact that this one truly i...

OTTAWA - Sociology professor Hassan Diab, who spent a decade fighting allegations of terrorism, is now battling in court for a copy of his Canadian citizenship certificate. The 65-year-old O...

MEDICINE HAT, Alta. - Scientists have found fossil evidence from the last ice age of a sabre-toothed cat in southern Alberta - the northern-most record of the predator. A study by the Royal Ontario Mu...

MONTREAL - There's little doubt about what greeting customers will hear when they enter Dave Plant's soon-to-be opened Cafe Bonjour/Hi, even as the Quebec government looks for ways to ban the popular ...

CALGARY - The Calgary Zoo says a giraffe that was born there earlier this week has died. In a Facebook post Saturday, the zoo says the male calf that was born last Sunday to an eight-year-ol...

EDMONTON - An Edmonton police officer who was run down by a car before he was stabbed in the street told a jury Thursday that he was thinking of his children as he struggled with his attacke...