Category Archives: Canada

Senate committee approves changes to solitary confinement bill
OTTAWA - A committee of senators has approved changes to a bill that aims to end solitary confinement in Canadian prisons - including one key change that would place a 48-hour maximum on the...
May 30, 2019

Remote health care tested as Haida Gwaii loses IV chemo treatment next month
QUEEN CHARLOTTE, B.C. - Cancer patients who need intravenous chemotherapy on the British Columbia archipelago of Haida Gwaii will now have to take an eight-hour ferry trip to the n...
May 29, 2019

Man found guilty of murdering Winnipeg woman found in barrel in backyard
WINNIPEG - A man has been convicted of killing a woman whose body was found in a barrel in the backyard of a Winnipeg home they shared with several other women. A jury has found Perez Cleveland, who i...
May 29, 2019

Trudeau warns internet regulation could be used to repress citizens, free speech
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says governments need to be wary of taking steps to regulate social media platforms that could be used by authoritarian regimes to further repress free spee...
May 29, 2019

'This was not possible.' Doctor says he believed Thai cave rescue would fail
HALIFAX - The Australian doctor who played a pivotal role in rescuing 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in Thailand last year says he initially thought the plan to save the children w...
May 29, 2019

Trudeau to include U.S. state abortion laws in talks with VP Pence
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he intends to raise the "backsliding" of women's rights in the United States with Vice-President Mike Pence this week. Pence is to be in Ottawa Thursday to ...
May 29, 2019

'Another step:' Federal Court judge releases ruling in Cree and Dene
EDMONTON - The Federal Court of Canada says it has issued a ruling in Cree and Dene - the first time it's done so in an Indigenous language. Justice Sebastien Grammond wrote about the import...
May 29, 2019

Defence lawyer says anti-Semitic attack at Winnipeg cafe was not a hoax
WINNIPEG - A lawyer for one of three family members accused of staging an anti-Semitic attack at their Winnipeg cafe says the hate crime was no hoax. Martin Glazer says his client, Oxan...
May 29, 2019

B.C. court hears officer ambushed, shot from behind by accused
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - An Alberta man "ambushed" a police officer moments after he got out of his vehicle, shooting him from behind and then standing over his unmoving body and shooting him again, a ...
May 29, 2019

Family of Quebec man imprisoned in Oman seeks Ottawa's help to bring him home
MONTREAL - The family of a Quebec man imprisoned in Oman appealed Monday to the Canadian government to help repatriate him before he is extradited to the United Arab Emirates ...
May 29, 2019