Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear a case about whether it's constitutional for police to make a random traffic stop without reasonable suspicion the driver has committed an off...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Fear of mental health stigma after festival attack A British Columbia advocate says people with mental illness...

Canada's highest court is set to decide today whether it will hear arguments in a trailblazing climate change lawsuit that could clarify whether governments are constitutionally required to tackle pla...

LAVAL - Families affected by a deadly bus crash at a Montreal-area daycare in 2023 are scheduled to read victim impact statements today in court. Earlier in the week a Quebec Superior Court judge acce...

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia advocate says people with mental illness and those who work with them are afraid of the consequences that could come in reaction to the festival tragedy that killed 11 p...

LONDON - The sex assault trial of five former members of Canada's world junior hockey team is expected to hear more testimony today from Taylor Raddysh, an NHL player who was also on the 2018 world ju...

OTTAWA - Bruce Fanjoy says he achieved something unexpected in Monday's election - the defeat of a high-profile Conservative leader in his own riding - simply by showing up on doorsteps and paying att...

OTTAWA - Some Conservative MPs are expressing support for party leader Pierre Poilievre after he lost both the federal election and his own seat on Monday. Veteran MP Mark Strahl says Poilievre has hi...

OTTAWA - A group trying to make a case for electoral reform by creating very long ballots is declaring victory in this week's election - even as critics accuse it of indulging in stunts that undermine...

Filipino-Canadian nurse Glesy Banton-Victoria says she had planned to attend the Lapu Lapu Day street festival in Vancouver on Saturday but took a nap instead, exhausted by a funeral earlier in the da...