Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - There is mounting proof that home prices are rising at a faster rate, Canada’s federal housing agency said Wednesday as it increased its risk rating for the national hou...

WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg transit driver who stopped during the afternoon rush hour to help a senior with her groceries is receiving kudos from hundreds of people on social media. A passenger on...

TORONTO - An Ontario medical student alleged to have forced two American teenage sisters to engage in sexual acts while he watched via Skype has been ordered extradited to the...

QUEBEC - One of the accused in a series of alleged break-ins and sexual assaults at a Quebec university student residence is now facing 12 charges. Thierno-Ourny Barry, 19, first a...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Indigenous leaders and the Newfoundland and Labrador government are telling protesters at the site of the Muskrat Falls hydro project they can “go home.” The leade...

OTTAWA - The New Democrats say they plan to turn up the political pressure on the Liberal government to take action on First Nations child welfare. The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ruled that th...

OAK BAY, B.C. - A bowl of nuts helped officers in Oak Bay, B.C., tail a suspected burglar. But as Const. Sheri Lucas investigated what appeared to be a break-in at a home in the Victoria sub...

ANTIGONISH, N.S. - The day Brian Mulroney showed up for classes at St. Francis Xavier University in 1955, he was carrying a cardboard suitcase and wearing the only blazer he had. Canada’s 18th p...

Alcohol, not hate, fuelled a break-in and extensive vandalism at a Muslim centre in a remote part of Quebec, say provincial police. “It’s the first business he (the acc...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Two suspects in a string of nationwide jewelry heists appeared briefly Wednesday in a New Brunswick provincial court facing diamond-theft charges. Seventy-year-o...