Tag Archives: Justice

WINNIPEG - A new Manitoba law restricting protests near clinics and hospitals where abortions are performed is to take effect Saturday. The NDP government introduced a bill last year that creates buff...

MONTREAL - Days after a local Montreal library refused to offer space for an English-language book club, the City of Montreal has backtracked and asked the Quebec government for more guidance in apply...

Canadian journalism organizations are having to wait a bit longer for their share of the $100 million Google agreed to pay news outlets to be exempt from the Online News Act. The organization administ...

TORONTO - Imperial Tobacco is rejecting what it says are major changes to a landmark $32.5-billion settlement that would see it and two other tobacco companies compensate provinces, territories and ex...

OTTAWA - A federal lawyer denies government responsibility for Abousfian Abdelrazik's detention in Sudan, saying the Montreal man's lawsuit against Canada is based on "an elaborate theory" crafted fro...

Luciano Mariani broke into the Vancouver Island home of his former girlfriend Caroline Bernard in August 2021 and bludgeoned her with a baseball bat while she slept, leaving the "ghastly scene" for th...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's education minister has fired the entire Victoria School Board in a dispute over a safety plan where the board barred police from schools except in emergencies. Minister L...

OTTAWA - The federal government has appointed a long-time advocate for victims' rights to help lead Canada's efforts to tackle human trafficking. Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Gary Anandasang...

MONTREAL - Three people are dead after a fire in a residential building in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Que., southwest of Montreal. The victims include two women in their 50s and a man in his 70s. Quebe...

IQALUIT - The devastating effects of Eric Dejaeger's sexual abuse of seven Inuit children more than four decades ago are being felt a generation later, a judge said Thursday as he handed the former Ca...