Canada

'It's worrying': Quebec premier on allegations anti-corruption unit fabricated evidence

MONTREAL - Fresh allegations involving Quebec's anti-corruption unit, once held up as the police force that would rekindle citizens' trust in their institutions, are roiling the province's political c...

May 16, 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 filed an appl...

May 16, 2019

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 16, 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 multiple women he lived with through surveillance, drugs and abuse. Perez Cleveland, 46, has pleaded n...

May 16, 2019

Just for Laughs founder asks appeal court to toss class action lawsuit

MONTREAL - Just for Laughs founder Gilbert Rozon's lawyer asked Quebec's highest court Thursday to throw out a $10-million class action lawsuit claiming that the comedy impresario abused at ...

May 16, 2019

Indigenous teen's treatment while disclosing abuse indicative of 'pattern'

OTTAWA - B.C.'s former child representative Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond says the "heinous" treatment of an Indigenous teenager during a 2012 RCMP interrogation reflects a pattern she has seen o...

May 16, 2019

NATO researchers consult federal government on foreign election meddling

OTTAWA - A leading NATO researcher says Canadian voters have a duty to think critically about the news they consume as foreign-interference threats loom over the coming federal election. Jan...

May 16, 2019

B.C. legislature clerk in spending scandal retires after wrongdoing found

VICTORIA - British Columbia's top legislative official has retired after a report by a former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada found he improperly claimed benefits...

May 16, 2019

UFO researcher Stanton Friedman dies after half-century effort to prove alien life

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 16, 2019

Liberals push Tories to show climate-policy hand with climate-change motion

OTTAWA - In a battle to see who can prove they care more about the environment, both the Liberals and the federal New Democrats are pushing motions this week to declare climate change a national ...

May 16, 2019