Canada

'You are free to leave': How the case against Mark Norman ended

OTTAWA - Vice-Admiral Mark Norman had walked up to the entrance of the Ottawa courthouse dozens of previous times over the past year, yet this time was different: This would be the last time. Like on ...

May 10, 2019

Goodale disputes charge that bill maintains solitary confinement by another name

OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale is disputing claims that a bill to end solitary confinement in Canada's prisons is merely "linguistic trickery" that maintains the practice unde...

May 10, 2019

B.C. Speaker apologizes for speech that says Hells Angels, Mafia 'successful'

VICTORIA - The Speaker of British Columbia's legislature says a speech he gave this week about leadership went sideways and he is apologizing for offending people. Darryl Plecas says the point he...

May 10, 2019

New Canadian fighter jets will need U.S. certification: DND

OTTAWA - Canada's top military procurement official says the U.S. will have to sign off on whatever fighter jet this country purchases, but that he is not concerned about political interference. Patri...

May 10, 2019

PSAC rejects government offer, setting up potential post-election strike

OTTAWA - There could be a federal public-service strike later this year, but it will be up to whoever is in power after the October election to deal with it. The Public Service Alliance of C...

May 10, 2019

Five lingering questions from the end of Mark Norman's criminal case

OTTAWA - Now that public prosecutors have decided to stay a breach-of-trust charge against Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, here are five questions Canadians don't have full answers to: 1) What was the evide...

May 10, 2019

Federal prisons taking aim at special (illicit) deliveries from the sky

OTTAWA - Prison wardens are usually preoccupied with keeping people inside their walls. Now six Canadian prisons are taking steps to shoo away some pesky, flying visitors. The Corr...

May 10, 2019

Refugee changes will hurt women asylum seekers, women's organizations say

OTTAWA - A group of Canadian women's organizations has called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to withdraw controversial changes to asylum laws in his government's omnibus budget bill because of ...

May 10, 2019

'There was justice:' Winnipeg man guilty of murdering Indigenous woman

WINNIPEG - The family of an Indigenous woman whose death prosecutors described as worse than any horror movie says there is finally justice now that her killer has been found guilty. "It's n...

May 10, 2019

For the birds: Halifax delays plan to cut 80,000 trees in beloved seaside park

HALIFAX - A plan to cut down 80,000 trees inside Halifax's most popular seaside park has been put on hold until the fall to protect the nests of many species of birds, including a ...

May 10, 2019