Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - It would be a mistake to label pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong as terrorists, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Wednesday as her government issued a pointed warn...

MONCTON, N.B. - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is asking Liberal MPs on the House of Commons ethics committee to vote to continue the investigation into the SNC-Lavalin affair, after a sc...

OTTAWA - It's long past time for the federal government to publicly condemn human rights violations that have been going on in Turkey for years, an Ottawa-based human rights activist says. More t...

Four stories in the news for Wednesday, Aug. 14 --- LIBERALS NAME CANDIDATE IN WILSON-RAYBOULD'S RIDING The Liberals now have a candidate in the British Columbia riding of Vancouver Granvill...

Five stories in the news for Friday, Aug. 16 --- LITTLE HAS CHANGED SINCE TINA FONTAINE DIED: ADVOCATES Tomorrow marks five years since the body of a First Nations girl was pulled from ...

OTTAWA - The RCMP has been sitting for two years on a watchdog report into alleged Mountie surveillance of anti-oil protesters, a civil liberties group charges. In a letter this month t...

CALGARY - A judge has found a man guilty of inflicting a fatal brain injury on his young grandson five months after the boy was sent to Canada from Mexico so he could hav...

WINNIPEG - It was quiet on the summer day when Cora Morgan and her cousin stood on the waterfront and performed a smudging ceremony for a young Indigenous girl pulled out of the Re...

WINNIPEG - On a recent warm evening in Winnipeg a woman ran up to the Bear Clan Patrol in a panic asking for help to find her niece who had not returned home. Patrol co-ordinator Meliss...

Social media can help or hurt police investigations such as the one into three homicides in northern British Columbia, says a criminologist. Frank Cormier, head of the sociology and criminology d...