Category Archives: Canada

VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s health minister says the province’s overdose prevention sites and at least one “sharing room” where people use drugs may not be legal under feder...

VICTORIA - Two suspected illegal drug labs, gasoline and other fuels contaminated the grounds of a former homeless camp on the lawn of Victoria’s courthouse, says a government-commissioned ...

OTTAWA - Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan has ruled out national security concerns following the sudden suspension last week of the military’s second-highest-ranking officer. Government and milita...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government refused to say Tuesday whether it will try to ban indigenous hunting at night - a move that would appease municipal leaders and anger indigenous groups. Sustain...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says she welcomes approval of the Keystone XL project, but says her focus remains on pipelines to ports in Canada. Notley says much of Keystone is ou...

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - British Columbia hopes to reduce the over-representation of indigenous children in government care with a new aboriginal family court pilot program. The Aboriginal Family ...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government says it is eager to speak to the province’s Acadians about appointing an independent commission to redraw the province’s electoral boundaries, a move t...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Police cannot “hypothesize” what the Trudeau Liberals will do with their marijuana legislation, or when they will do it, a New Brunswick police chief said Tuesday as his...

TORONTO - An unapologetic ThyssenKrupp Canada was fined $375,000 on Tuesday, as the prosecution had urged, for a potentially fatal breach of elevator safety laws in which a man was injured. In passing...

QUEBEC - A Quebec man is facing three charges in the death of a pregnant woman who was struck by a vehicle at a pedestrian crossing last summer. Jonathan Falardeau-Laroche was charged in Quebec City t...