Category Archives: Canada

Charges in a long-running case over the abduction of prized sheep from an Ontario farm were stayed this week, after a judge found there had been unreasonable delays in bringing the matter to trial. Th...

OTTAWA - Status of Women Minister Patty Hajdu says the federal government can learn a lot from some business leaders about how to include more women in their ranks, beyond setting a quota and hoping f...

CALGARY - Loved ones of an 85-year-old man accused of murdering his wife of 56 years say they are relieved Siegfried van Zuiden has been deemed unfit to stand trial. But close family friends said Frid...

Four stories in the news for Friday, Dec. 2 --- DODGE SAYS HIGHER RATES COULD HELP ECONOMY Former Bank of Canada governor David Dodge says the world economy might be better off if policy-makers bumped...

EDMONTON - Federal Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr has assured business leaders that workers at pipeline construction sites will be kept safe in the event of protests or civil disobedience. Carr w...

SASKATOON - Saskatchewan’s premier says he knows Canadians do not support a national carbon tax so he’s started his own online petition. At a news conference on Thursday, Brad Wall also sa...

TORONTO - A Toronto senior who used his cane to attack a fellow long-term care home resident more than three years ago was found guilty late Thursday of second-degree murder in the woman’s death...

SECHELT, B.C. - The rescue of a British Columbia woman after her SUV plunged off the Sunshine Coast Highway near Sechelt and landed in a swollen creek was “miraculous,” RCMP said Thursday....

WINNIPEG - After a tough year of surgery and chemotherapy for cancer, a Winnipeg woman is preparing for her wedding day. Lisa Carson-Walton is to walk down the aisle Friday with her fianc Chris Herie ...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A mother who drowned her newborn son in a sink before leaving her home to write a university exam has avoided time behind bars, though a judge described her actions as “abhorren...