Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - A law firm that represents the families of victims of the April mass shooting in Nova Scotia has hired a criminal investigation firm as it prepares two potential class-action lawsuits. Halif...

OTTAWA - Gender Equality Minister Maryam Monsef says the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the conditions that make women, children and gender-diverse people vulnerable to violence. She says that's wh...

OTTAWA - The federal privacy czar says the COVID-19 pandemic is underscoring weaknesses in the law that place the personal information of Canadians at risk. In his annual report presented to Parliamen...

FREDERICTON - Testimony at the Matthew Raymond murder trial in Fredericton is on hold until Friday morning. Justice Larry Landry of the Court of Queen's Bench told the jury today that a Supreme Court ...

OTTAWA - A new Statistics Canada report says more than two-thirds of students at the country's military colleges personally witnessed or experienced unwanted sexual behaviour in the past year. The fin...

MONTREAL - Premier Francois Legault says the province is reporting 1,078 new COVID-19 cases and nine more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus. Legault told reporters today hospitalizations incr...

OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer says the federal carbon tax would have to rise over the coming years if the country is to meet emission-reduction targets under the Paris climate accord. The ...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not review the eight-year sentence handed to a man who stabbed a teenager at a church.Maksym Kravchenko assaulted the girl in a washroom after a Sunday servic...

OTTAWA - The governor of the Bank of Canada says managing the risks from the pandemic is more critical than ever, saying it is key to a recovery and the stability of society.Governor Tiff Macklem says...

OTTAWA - The federal and Ontario governments are each chipping in more than $250 million to mass produce electric vehicles - and the batteries that power them - at Ford Motor Co.'s plant in Oakville, ...