Category Archives: Canada

FREDERICTON - Justices hearing the appeal of Dennis Oland’s murder conviction spent much of Wednesday questioning Crown prosecutors about when a lie is a lie, and when it’s an honest mista...

CALGARY - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley remembered Jim Prentice on Wednesday as gracious, statesmanlike and visionary as her office announced plans to honour him at a state memorial. The public servic...

BARRIE, Ont. - An Ontario man who carried out increasingly violent sex crimes against children and animals for close to a decade before a teenage victim reported him to police must be locked up indefi...

CARLISLE, Pa. - A Pennsylvania man has admitted he sexually assaulted a six-year-old boy after Canadian authorities intercepted an Internet broadcast of him raping the child. U.S. authorities later di...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the recent rash of suicides in northern Saskatchewan is a tragedy. Speaking to reporters in Ottawa on Wednesday, Trudeau said it’s all too common for ...

WATERLOO, Ont. - Imagine walking into a black-walled, nondescript room that instantly transforms into another world where you can explore outer space or defend a castle from monsters - all by donning ...

BRUSSELS - The head of Belgium’s small Wallonia region is rejecting a Friday deadline to sign up to a huge trade deal between Canada and the European Union, demanding a full renegotiation that c...

Six stories in the news for Tuesday, Oct. 18 --- TRUDEAU LIBERALS MARK ONE YEAR IN POWER It was one year ago today that Canadians headed to the polls in a federal election that elevated the third-plac...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his fellow Liberals were in a self-congratulatory mood Wednesday as both sides of the House of Commons marked the first anniversary of the 2015 election, whi...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada has downgraded the country’s growth outlook yet again with fresh projections Wednesday that see an impending drop in housing activity tied to new government rules and...