Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The Toronto lawyer who successfully challenged the previous Conservative government over one of its Supreme Court judge nominees is setting his sights on a new target: Canada’s free tra...

WINNIPEG - Following Canada’s apology for residential schools and the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report on that chapter in the country’s history, many organizations...

WINNIPEG - As Winnipeg Jets fans make their way to their seats and players prepare to stand on home ice for the national anthem, an announcement fills the downtown arena. The message - believed to be ...

MEDICINE HAT, Alta. - A sexual minorities expert says judges need to be better educated about gender identity after two Alberta family court judges ruled that a child born a boy couldn’t wear gi...

SASKATOON - A chocolate Labrador retriever trapped in a well for almost a month is responding to special care from animal medical clinicians and a nutritionist. Seven-year-old Bruno is listed as stabl...

OTTAWA - As politicians across the country worry about the consequences of a national carbon tax on family incomes, many experts say the much-touted carbon market in Quebec has so far had little effec...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government’s conflicting climate and pipeline policies were thrown into sharp relief Monday as more than 200 protesters marched on Parliament Hill demanding Prime Minister J...

VICTORIA - Family members of a teenage girl who was viciously beaten and drowned on Vancouver Island nearly two decades ago say they wish their relative’s killer well after a news report that sh...

OTTAWA - Conservative leadership candidate Steven Blaney says he would introduce a bill calling for Canadians to have to show their face when they vote or take the oath of citizenship. In his first po...

EDMONTON - An ancient bone bed in a remote Mongolian desert presents tantalizing clues that dinosaurs of a feather may have flocked together for the same reasons modern birds do. “We’re st...