Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - The president and co-founder of real estate firm Sutton-Qubec is facing arson and conspiracy charges linked to fires allegedly started in buildings housing other brokers. Court documents in...

EDMONTON - A man is facing weapons charges, including the use of incendiary devices, after shots were fired Tuesday at Edmonton City Hall. The seven charges against 28-year-old Bezhani Sarvar also inc...

OTTAWA - Sweden is inching closer to joining NATO, and Defence Minister Bill Blair says that's "pretty exciting" for Canada. Sweden and Finland both asked to join the alliance after Russia's full-scal...

Ottawa's Rideau Canal is set to close for skating at 10 p.m. this evening, just four days after a section of the skateway was first opened for the season. The National Capital Commission says on its w...

VICTORIA - The BC Coroners Service says there were 2,511 suspected illicit drug deaths last year, the highest annual toll ever recorded. Chief coroner Lisa Lapointe says close to 14,000 people have di...

Four passengers and two crew members are dead after a plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Fort Smith, N.W.T. A lone survivor was taken to hospital. The flight had been heading from the town on th...

OTTAWA - A judge's ruling that the federal Liberals were unjustified in using emergency law to quell a weeks-long protest in Ottawa has left the administrator of a downtown church feeling the court di...

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives want the Trudeau government to restore a visa requirement for Mexican tourists as concerns mount about denied refugee claims. Asylum claims from Mexico have shot up ...

FORT SMITH, N.W.T. - Four passengers and two crew members were killed in a plane crash Tuesday near Fort Smith, N.W.T. The coroner's office in the territory says a lone survivor was airlifted to hospi...

MONTREAL - Former Montreal mayor and federal cabinet minister Denis Coderre says he's going on tour ahead of a possible run for the leadership of the Quebec Liberal party. Coderre, who lost the last t...