Tag Archives: Justice

OTTAWA - A majority of Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole's caucus voted Wednesday in support of a bill that sought to restrict certain abortions even as he voted it down, saying he respects a woman's r...

Quebec Economy Minister Pierre Fitzgibbon has resigned, Premier Franois Legault announced Wednesday, after the province's ethics commissioner called for him to be suspended from the legislature over a...

OTTAWA - Federal Justice Minister David Lametti says he is open to considering different legal avenues when it comes to residential schools with burial grounds - in particular the possibility of prote...

TROIS-RIVIRES, Que. - Hundreds of people gathered outside the courthouse where the coroner's inquest into the death of Joyce Echaquan ended Wednesday, hopeful that her death leads to concrete changes ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A judge has rejected the "stand your ground" defense of a Florida man who said he beat an iguana to death only after it attacked him, biting him on the arm. PJ Nilaja Patt...

OTTAWA - The discovery of an unmarked burial site at a Kamloops, B.C. residential school has sent shock waves across the world, which experts say will have a lasting negative impact on Canada's reputa...

MIAMI (AP) - Police have charged two suspects with attempted murder in a shooting that wounded two people on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach, but suspects remained elusive Wednesday in two other attacks th...

OTTAWA - Federal prison staff intercepted conversations between an inmate and their lawyer without approval in 10 per cent of cases reviewed, amounting to possible breaches of solicitor-client privile...

LAKE COWICHAN, B.C. - Another nine protesters have been arrested at blockades aimed at preventing old-growth logging on southwestern Vancouver Island. RCMP began enforcing a British Columbia court inj...

The former chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission says Canadians should be prepared for the discovery of more children's remains at other residential school sites across the country. Reti...