Tag Archives: Justice

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada won't hear a challenge of the former Alberta government's decision to call an election in 2015. A general election was held in Alberta in 2012 and based on the pro...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to review the sentencing of a man who went on a deadly shooting spree at a Quebec City mosque. The examination of Alexandre Bissonnette's case is expect...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - A permanent resident of the United States wanted by China was freed by Dubai on Thursday after spending weeks in detention, and boarded a flight to Turkey. Beijing h...

OTTAWA - A landmark legal battle over the independence of judges responsible for overseeing military courts martial has gone meta with new questions over the autonomy of a judge hearing the case. The ...

CHICAGO (AP) - Kevin Clark, who played drummer Freddy "Spazzy McGee" Jones in the 2003 movie "School of Rock" with Jack Black, was killed when he was struck by a car while riding his bicycle along a C...

LAKE COWICHAN, B.C. - Police say 55 people were arrested Tuesday as they enforced a British Columbia court injunction ordering the removal of blockades aimed at preventing old-growth logging on southw...

VANCOUVER - The Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs says it is "appalled and horrified" at the "gruesome" discovery of severed bear paws in the province's Interior. The Conservation Officer Servic...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Abortion rights supporters on Wednesday filed a lawsuit challenging Arkansas' near-total ban on the procedure that's part of an effort by conservatives to force the U.S. Supre...

OTTAWA - The Bloc Qubcois failed to unanimously pass a motion recognizing Quebec's right to unilaterally change the Constitution in line with proposed reforms to the province's language law. Leader Yv...

MONTREAL - A veteran Quebec nurse told a coroner's inquest Wednesday he had raised concerns about the care Joyce Echaquan had received at the hospital before she died and how she had lacked supervisio...