Canada

Montreal mayor says secularism bill targets minorities and violates freedoms

QUEBEC - The mayor of Quebec's largest city says the provincial government's secularism bill is causing tension in society. Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante told a legislature committee today that the ci...

May 14, 2019

Wildfire prompts evacuation order, state of emergency in central B.C.

FRASER LAKE, B.C. - Fraser Lake Mayor Sarrah Storey was driving back from a soccer tournament out of town when she saw the skyline transformed by a wildfire creeping up a mountain on the edge of ...

May 14, 2019

Tori Stafford kidnapper wants court to declare her prison transfer unlawful

EDMONTON - A woman serving a life sentence for the murder of eight-year-old Tori Stafford says her move from a healing lodge back to a prison was unfair. Lawyers for Terri-Lynn McClintic recently file...

May 14, 2019

NewsAlert: Clement Gascon, high court justice who went missing, had panic attack

OTTAWA - Supreme Court Justice Clement Gascon says he suffered a panic attack last week before he briefly went missing Wednesday night. Gascon, who has already announced plans to r...

May 14, 2019

Accused in death of Winnipeg woman found in barrel controlled 5 women: Crown

WINNIPEG - A Crown prosecutor says a man on trial for first-degree murder maintained control over five women he lived with through surveillance, drugs and abuse. Perez Cleveland has pleaded not guilty...

May 14, 2019

'A lot safer place:' Calgary university uses AI to monitor threats

CALGARY - A post-secondary school in southern Alberta is turning to artificial intelligence to make its buildings safer and to allow security officers to catch criminals in th...

May 14, 2019

Mark Norman gets House of Commons apology for impact of failed prosecution

OTTAWA - The House of Commons is apologizing to Vice-Admiral Mark Norman for what he had to endure while facing criminal breach-of-trust charges. Conservative MP Lisa Raitt got unanimous consent for t...

May 14, 2019

Famed UFO researcher Stanton Friedman dead after half century of lectures

FREDERICTON - Stanton T. Friedman, nuclear physicist, lecturer and world-renowned devotee of extraterrestrial existence, has died at the age of 84. The famed UFO researcher died Monday at To...

May 14, 2019

Montreal's tam-tams could be 40 years old, but origin remains contested

MONTREAL - Every Sunday afternoon from spring through fall, hundreds of people gather on the slopes of Mount Royal for the tam-tams, a loosely organized weekly festival of drumming, dancing, and ...

May 14, 2019

Eastern Ontario communities reeling as Ottawa River hits historic high

OTTAWA - Lynne Lavictoire wants to go home. The only way she can get anywhere near it is by boat. For the time being, she's set up at a hotel where she is praying her home in La Passe, Ont. ...

May 14, 2019