Canada

Jury starts deliberating at Edmontohn trial for suspect in officer stabbing

EDMONTON - A jury has started deliberating in the trial for a man accused of stabbing an Edmonton police officer and striking four pedestrians with a van. Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, who is 32, has pl...

Oct 24, 2019

Legal aid won't take on Quebec man seeking to withdraw guilty plea for killing unborn child

MONTREAL - A Quebec man seeking to withdraw his guilty pleas in the killing of his unborn child and the stabbing of his ex-wife won't be represented by legal aid in the case. Sofiane Ghazi suddenly pl...

Oct 24, 2019

N.B. Appeal Court orders new murder trial for woman convicted in stabbing death

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's Court of Appeal has ordered a new trial for a young woman convicted in the brutal slaying of a Moncton teen who was stabbed about 200 times. A spokeswoman confirmed today...

Oct 24, 2019

Police called after Catherine McKenna's office vandalized with vulgar slur

OTTAWA - Newly re-elected Liberal MP Catherine McKenna says she has notified police after someone spray-painted an obscenity on the front of her Ottawa Centre campaign office. Staff arriving at t...

Oct 24, 2019

Alleged RCMP secret leaker Cameron Ortis granted bail with conditions

OTTAWA - Cameron Jay Ortis, a senior RCMP official accused of breaching Canada's official-secrets law, walked out of an Ottawa courthouse Tuesday after being released on bail with strict conditio...

Oct 24, 2019

NewsAlert: Former N.S. police chief guilty of sex charge

BRIDGEWATER, N.S. - The former chief of police in a southwestern Nova Scotia town has been found guilty of sexually exploiting a 17-year-old girl. John Collyer was the police chief in Bridge...

Oct 24, 2019

Scheer says Canada more divided than ever, as NDP, Bloc hold cards close

REGINA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer offered the Liberals no help Tuesday to try and piece together national unity after an election contest that's left the country divided on regional lines. Sc...

Oct 24, 2019

UCP government to table first budget, warns of program spending cuts

EDMONTON - The Alberta government is to table a budget today that will cut program spending by nearly three per cent. The budget is the first under Premier Jason Kenney's United Conservative governmen...

Oct 24, 2019

Liberals: TMX pipeline could fund $500 million a year in clean energy projects

OTTAWA - The Liberal government expects to get $500 million a year out of the expanded Trans Mountain pipeline and is promising to spend it all on cleaner sources of energy and projects that...

Oct 24, 2019

The family tree for the tree of life and feral cats; In-The-News for Oct. 24

In-The-News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Oct. 24. What we are watching i...

Oct 24, 2019