Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - Call it acronym acrimony. The province’s anti-corruption unit certainly wasn’t laughing over a public-sector union’s appropriation of th...

VANCOUVER - The federal government is standing behind its decision to approve the massive Pacific NorthWest LNG project, despite facing new court challenges and accusations that it has broken climate ...

WINNIPEG - Lawyers are set to argue whether a man who has admitted to sexually assaulting and battering a Winnipeg woman and a teenage girl should be sentenced as an adult or a youth. The man, wh...

TORONTO - Media and rights groups on Thursday won the right to intervene in a news outlet’s appeal of an order that one of its reporters turn over his materials to the RCMP. The ruling by Ontari...

Quebec should recognize Canadian values and support its neighbours, Newfoundland and Labrador’s finance minister said Thursday as the two provinces clashed over the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric p...

TORONTO - A retired United Church minister has asked to be formally defrocked as a protest against the potential firing of a colleague for her atheist beliefs. In a scorching open letter, Rev. Beverle...

MEMBERTOU, N.S. - Daniel Christmas helped transform his near-bankrupt First Nation into one of the country’s most successful. Now, named what is believed to be Canada’s first Mi&...

Two-year-old Bentley knows he’s gone viral, even if he isn’t quite sure what that means. The little boy from Trenton, Ont., has captivated Internet audiences across the coun...

OTTAWA - Canadian troops will not face Russia alone when they begin to arrive in Latvia early next year. Four countries - Albania, Italy, Poland and Slovenia - have promised to contribute troops ...

Prisoner advocates say charging inmates exorbitant rates to call loved ones from jail could hinder their chances for rehabilitation and make it more difficult for them to reintegrate into so...