Category Archives: Canada

EDMONTON - Women wearing hijabs received flowers Wednesday as they waited at an Edmonton light-rail transit station where two Muslim women were targeted in what police say could be a hate crime. ...

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Dec. 8 JOHN GLENN DEAD AT 95: American astronaut John Glenn is dead at age 95.  Glenn was the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth, which ...

OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says it’s “unacceptable” that an RCMP employee fabricated a response to an access-to-information request. Goodale says the individual in...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are moving on their promise to build a political firewall around Statistics Canada, but the fine print of the proposed legislative changes would maintain the governm...

TORONTO - Police in Toronto say they’ve made their first confirmed seizure of the deadly drug carfentanil. They said Wednesday in a release that analysis of recently seized substances purpo...

OTTAWA - The interim Bloc Quebecois leader says he isn’t interested in the job on a permanent basis. Rheal Fortin, who has headed the party since last year’s federal electio...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is sitting down with premiers to finalize a long-awaited national plan on climate change, but once those discussions wrap up, they will move right into a heated ...

OTTAWA - Mounties won’t be wearing tiny video cameras - at least for now. The RCMP says it is postponing the deployment of body-worn cameras after testing revealed technical problems, inclu...

MOUNT HOPE, Ont. - A military funeral for a Canadian Air Force pilot killed in a plane crash last week was held Wednesday at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Mount Hope, Ont. Capt. Thomas...

OTTAWA - The quarantine of cattle in a western Canada bovine tuberculosis outbreak continues to grow, even as no new confirmed cases of the disease have been found. Officials said Wednesday, however, ...