Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Independent senator and former journalist Andre Pratte wants the Liberal government to look seriously at beefing up protection for reporters and their sources. Pratte says if the government s...

OTTAWA - Federal Conservative leadership candidate Michael Chong is proposing a dramatic overhaul of the tax system based on new revenues from taxing carbon. Chong says his plan would cut overall fede...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia will be getting electricity for “next to nothing” when the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project in Labrador starts producing energy, the man in charge of the megaproje...

QUEBEC - Voters in four Quebec ridings will head to the polls in provincial byelections in early December in what will be Jean-Francois Lisee’s first major test since becoming Parti Quebecois le...

WINNIPEG - Police are investigating the theft of a file containing the records of about 1,000 patients from Manitoba’s largest hospital. The file was taken from a diagnostic imaging office at Wi...

TORONTO - A father, mother and son found guilty in the drowning deaths of three teenaged sisters and another woman who had apparently shamed the family lost their bid Wednesday to overturn their first...

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Grade 9 student Amsuman Nair will remember the screams for the rest of his life. The 14-year-old was in the middle of a math exam at his high school in Abbotsford, B.C., when two gi...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has recommended six more Canadians to be appointed to the Senate to represent regions of Quebec. Here’s a brief look at each of them: Renee Dupuis A lawyer...

WOODSTOCK, Ont. - A nurse accused of killing eight seniors at two long-term care homes in southwestern Ontario has had her case put over to Nov. 18 after a brief court appearance Wednesday morning. El...

EDMONTON - A man who chose the wrong day to zoom through an elementary school zone in Edmonton going 122 kilometres an hour will spend a week’s worth of time behind bars. Brodie Rae Christensen,...