Tag Archives: National

A legal saga that spanned more than a decade has come to a close for an Ontario couple charged with unlawful confinement after making a citizen's arrest, with prosecutors withdrawing the charges ...

WINNIPEG - The former scientific director of Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory who recently had experimental brain surgery to battle alcoholism has died. The University of Manitoba confirmed t...

OTTAWA - A Federal Court of Appeal ruling Tuesday removes the last active court hurdle to completion of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. The court decision means constru...

OTTAWA - The Metis National Council says Sen. Lynn Beyak should consider resigning for reportedly claiming to be Metis because her parents adopted an Indigenous child. David Chartrand, vice-presi...

Quebec's education minister is taking aim at an eastern Quebec-based college offering English-only classes to foreign students at its Montreal campus. Jean-Francois Roberge says he...

GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - A psychiatrist who saw Lionel Desmond two days before he fatally shot his family and himself says the former soldier showed no signs he was thinking about hurting anyone when ...

MONTREAL - A national group that lobbies for smaller government and lower taxes has calculated there are more than 43,000 Quebec public sector employees earning six-figur...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government is introducing legislation to help ensure judges are trained in sexual assault law. It would require all newly appointed provincial superior court judges to receive the...

VAL-DES-MONTS, Que. - A retired RCMP officer has been charged with murder in the deaths of two tenants at his home in the western Quebec community of Val-des-Monts. Yvon Mercier, 69, faces two co...

WASHINGTON - It was once among the most predictable spectacles on the American political calendar - but with Donald Trump on the dais, there's as much suspense surrounding tonight's sta...