Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - A Quebec comedian is being allowed to appeal a ruling he must pay $35,000 to a young artist for mocking his appearance and singing. The Quebec Human Rights Tribunal ruled in July that Mike ...

REGINA - Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should look south of the border before implementing a carbon tax in Canada. Wall said the climate change plan released this w...

HALIFAX - Having helped rewrite the basic laws of physics, Canadian scientist Arthur McDonald has moved on to one of the universe’s biggest mysteries. Awarded a Nobel physics prize last year for...

OTTAWA - The federal government is expanding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s commitment to gender equality to include scientific research. Universities that want in on a newly launched competiti...

OTTAWA - The chief executive at one of Canada’s biggest banks is supportive of a new package of federal measures aimed at easing risks in the country’s real estate system. CIBC’s Vic...

SASKATOON - A 16-year-old girl has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of a six-week-old boy in Saskatoon. The teen, who cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, entered t...

GOLDEN, B.C. - Police say a man suspected of shooting a Mountie in British Columbia has been found dead. RCMP spokesman Cpl. Dan Moskaluk said the man’s body was found near the southeastern B.C....

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Tony Clement is ending his bid for the leadership of his party, saying that he fell short of fundraising targets he set when he started his campaign. “Everything else wa...

TORONTO - Ontario will expand use of the drug Suboxone as an alternative to methadone to treat people addicted to opioids as part of a new provincial strategy to combat an increasing number of overdos...

TORONTO - An Ontario woman’s lawsuit against convicted sex killer Russell Williams and his wife has been settled. Sexual assault victim Laurie Massicotte had filed a nearly $7-million lawsuit in...