Author Archives: Syndicated Content

WINNIPEG - Law groups across Canada are denouncing the Manitoba NDP's ouster of a backbencher over his ties to the lawyer representing convicted sex offender Peter Nygard, while more caucus members ar...

OTTAWA - French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Canada next week after a planned trip in July was cancelled amid political turmoil in France. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced in a statemen...

MONTREAL - Quebec's public services are becoming "dehumanized," the province's ombudsperson said in his annual report released Thursday, adding that a growing number of people are reaching out to his ...

EDMONTON - Independent investigators have cleared a Yukon police officer in a 2022 fatal shooting of a man who was threatening others with a rifle. In a report released by the civilian-led Alberta Ser...

WINNIPEG - A court has been asked to declare Lake Winnipeg a person with constitutional rights to life, liberty and security of person in a case that may go further than any other in trying to establi...

PORT ALBERNI, B.C. - Getting a bed at one of British Columbia's drug detoxification facilities is like winning the lottery, the vice-president on the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council says. Les Doiron tol...

FREDERICTON - A quick look at some of the issues in the New Brunswick election campaign: HEALTH CARE Conservatives: introduce "incremental improvements" Liberals: open 30 community-care clinics Greens...

OTTAWA - The Mtis Nation of Saskatchewan has pulled out of a national body representing Mtis, citing problems with an Ontario group and throwing the future of the Mtis National Council into question. ...

FREDERICTON - A look at Susan Holt, leader of the Liberal Party of New Brunswick. Born: April 22, 1977. Early years: Raised in Fredericton, she attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., and then ...

The mayor of Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., has apologized after she was criticized for musing about the "old days" of managing feral cats by throwing them in the river or gassing them with a vehicle's exh...