Category Archives: Canada

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Banning peaceful displays of photos during judge-only court hearings is “unacceptable,” the founder of a national victims’ support group said Wednesday. In t...

SHIP BOTTOM, N.J. - Authorities say a Canadian woman lying on a New Jersey beach has been run over by a truck picking up trash. A spokesman with the Ocean County prosecutor’s office says Megan F...

HALIFAX - Experts in privacy and civil rights are raising questions about a police news conference that identified 27 men caught in a Cape Breton prostitution sting, saying the move amounted to unnece...

FREDERICTON - Canadian lawyers are applauding a precedent-setting judgment for decades-old child abuse in New Brunswick, saying it’s an important moment as more sex-abuse victims come forward to...

OTTAWA - Weak exports and the Alberta wildfires hammered the Canadian economy as it posted its worst quarterly performance since the global financial crisis, but the three-month period ended on a posi...

TORONTO - A teen girl is facing charges after a commotion at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, which shut down earlier than planned on Tuesday over safety concerns. Toronto police say offic...

SASKATOON - Hockey legend Gordie Howe is coming home. A Saskatoon official says the city has received permission from the province to inter the cremated remains of Howe and his wife, Colleen, at the b...

OTTAWA - The federal budget watchdog says that creating a tax credit for local residents who regularly pay tolls on the Confederation Bridge would cost the treasury about $2.5 million a year in forgon...

GATINEAU, Que. - The Transportation Safety Board says a freight train derailment in northern Ontario was caused by the complete failure of a previously cracked rail. The incident took place on Jan. 13...

OTTAWA - The veterans affairs minister says the government intends to implement a number of recommendations to combat homelessness among veterans and to do so in what he calls a relatively timely fash...