Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - A journalist working for a Montreal-based online radio station was killed Thursday near the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, as he prepared to interview a member of an armed group about the...

TORONTO - The federal government is setting up a scholarship program honouring the victims of the passenger jet shot down by Iranian forces two years ago. The program is expected to disburse scholarsh...

TORONTO - The bail hearing for Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard will continue next week. Police have said he's charged with six counts of sexual assault and three counts of forcible confinement, wh...

OTTAWA - Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson is overhauling a methane-reduction program that the environment commissioner slammed last fall as poorly designed and a waste of money. The third...

TROIS-RIVIRES, Que. - A Quebec Superior Court judge today sentenced the father of a girl who was murdered by her stepmother in April 2019 to four years in prison for his role in events leading to her ...

OTTAWA - Federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos says about 27 of the 130 passengers on the Sunwing party flight to Mexico have returned to Canada. Duclos told reporters today the returning traveller...

OTTAWA - At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Amy Go knew Canada was about to repeat history. The president of the Chinese Canadian National Council for Social Justice said she braced herself for t...

WASHINGTON - A Quebec woman accused of mailing poison to then-president Donald Trump will not have more than US$2,000 seized by American authorities returned to her. Dabney L. Friedrich, a federal jud...

OTTAWA - Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc says the government will do whatever it can to support Indigenous communities, such as Bearskin Lake, facing COVID-19 crises. At a news conf...

OTTAWA - Canada's chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says the Omicron variant is causing an "enormous" volume of COVID-19 cases, but severe illness is not rising at the same rate. Tam says th...