Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - Former Parti Qubcois leader Andr Boisclair is renouncing his right to a preliminary inquiry on sexual assault charges and will go directly to trial. Boisclair is charged in two separate cas...

MIRAMICHI, N.B. - Rodney Levi didn't get the mental health help he needed before he was shot dead by police last year in northern New Brunswick, an addictions counsellor and lifelong friend to the Ind...

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KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Communities across Canada are set to mark the country's first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation today, honouring Indigenous survivors and children who disappeared from the res...

WINNIPEG - Family members of a three-year-old boy who was stabbed while he slept in his bed hugged and cried outside a Winnipeg courtroom Wednesday night after his accused killer was found guilty. A j...

OTTAWA - The Federal Court has dismissed Ottawa's attempts to appeal a pair of rulings about providing services and compensation to First Nations children. In September 2019, the Canadian Human Rights...

OTTAWA - The Green activist who came second to Annamie Paul in the last leadership race says he is being urged by many to stand again. Dimitri Lascaris, a Montreal-based lawyer and activist, is "vacil...

OTTAWA - Governor General Mary May Simon has some very personal reflections on the eve of Canada's first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. As the daughter of a white father and Inuk mother, M...

EDMONTON - A woman convicted in the death of a 19-month-old boy found outside a church has been granted day parole for six months. Tasha-Lee Mack and her then-boyfriend Joey Crier were each charged wi...

VICTORIA - A decision by a British Columbia Supreme Court judge refusing to extend an injunction against old-growth logging protesters did little to release pressure in the dispute as all sides hold s...