EDMONTON - Alberta Health Services says it has taken a number of steps to better train staff, after an Indigenous man's braids were cut off and thrown away while he was in an Edmonton hospital. Eve Adams went in May to visit her husband, Dexter Adams, ...

MONTREAL - Quebec Superior Court has approved a class action settlement that could provide as much as $10.25 million to victims who were sexually abused by a minor hockey coach in a Montreal suburb. François Lamarre, a former Montreal police officer wh...

OTTAWA - Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown said foreign interference did not tip the scales in the Conservative party's last leadership race that installed Pierre Poilievre at the helm. Brown, who was a candidate for the leadership at the time, was summoned...

HALIFAX - A group of unionized Nova Scotia jail guards marched in driving rain Thursday to draw attention to what they say are "crisis" working conditions. About 40 members of the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union waved placards as a f...

OTTAWA - The federal government is seeking a third extension to a court-mandated deadline to pass legislation that grants citizenship to "lost Canadians," Immigration Minister Marc Miller said on Thursday. Miller said the government is asking the court...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government says it will seek leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada a ruling that found permitting random traffic stops leads to racial profiling. In October, Quebec's Court of Appeal upheld a 2022 Superior Court decision ...

Metro Vancouver Crime Stoppers says it has teamed up with a national program to offer up to a $100,000 reward for information leading to the capture of Rabih Alkhalil, who broke out of a Port Coquitlam, B.C., prison in 2022. Crime Stoppers says it's p...

EDMONTON - Former Alberta premier and NDP Leader Rachel Notley is leaving the legislature. Notley announced on social media that, as of Dec. 30, she is resigning as the legislature representative for Edmonton-Strathcona. In the statement, Notley thanks...

MONTREAL - Montreal billionaire Robert Miller is facing criminal charges of sexual misconduct involving a new complainant who was under the age of 14 when the alleged offences began. The 81-year-old founder of Future Electronics was arrested in May on ...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government's plan to send firearms from its buyback program to the battlefield in Ukraine will only include unused weapons, the Department of National Defence says. A department spokesperson says Ukraine gave Canada a list of 23 ty...

OTTAWA - A legal review commissioned by the Assembly of First Nations is warning a $47.8 billion deal to reform the First Nations child welfare system could be moot if there's a change in government in the upcoming year. Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP a...

TORONTO - Ontario legislation aimed at helping municipalities clear homeless encampments out of public parks will include stronger trespass laws and fines or jail time for illegal drug use in public, Premier Doug Ford announced Thursday. Families shoul...