Category Archives: Canada

Montreal police say they have identified a man seen in a widely shared video verbally harassing a woman and a crying child. The woman in the video has told media outlets&...

BEIRUT - A British Columbia man detained in Syria since late last year has been released, Lebanese authorities said Friday.  Kristian Lee Baxter, who has been descri...

MONTREAL - Quebec Superior Court has awarded nearly $45,000 to a man whose former brother-in-law deprived him of their Montreal Canadiens season tickets over a family dispute, ruling that he...

WINNIPEG - A man convicted of killing a Winnipeg bus driver in what a judge described as a brutal and explosive stabbing will not be eligible for parole for 12 years. Irvine Jubal Fraser, 58, was at t...

OTTAWA - The federal government says it is making changes that will better protect Canadians from excessive drug prices and make patented medicines more affordable. Health Canada is&nbs...

MONTREAL - The Quebec town of Oka wants the federal government to impose a moratorium on the proposed transfer of privately owned lands to the neighbouring Mohawk community of Kanesatake. In a se...

OTTAWA - Canada lost 24,200 jobs last month and its unemployment rate moved up to 5.7 per cent to give the economy its weakest three-month stretch of job creation since early 2018. On the po...

Five stories in the news for Wednesday, August 7 --- RCMP FIND ITEMS LINKED TO MURDER SUSPECTS RCMP in Manitoba have found several items linked to two suspects wanted for killings in Br...

Four stories in the news for Friday, August 9 --- COMMUNITY SEARCHES FOR ANSWERS AFTER MANHUNT ENDS The residents of Gillam, Manitoba are grappling with questions about how a massive manhunt...

MONTREAL - Hannah Tooktoo, an Inuk mother from Nunavik, Que., descended from her bike Thursday, 55 days after pedalling across the country to raise awareness to the suicides that are ravagin...