Tag Archives: Justice

SIPEKNE'KATIK FIRST NATION - A First Nation in Nova Scotia says it is declaring a state of emergency over what its chief and council are calling an escalating crisis of addiction and illicit drugs in ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney suspended his plans to travel to Halifax and Munich, Germany, following a deadly school shooting in British Columbia. Carney said in a statement he is devastated by...

WINNIPEG - A public inquiry into cost overruns at a Winnipeg construction project has heard of an unusual change that helped the winning bidder. The inquiry is examining the city's development of a he...

MONTREAL - Tacked on the plywood fence keeping intruders away from the long-closed St-Eusbe-de-Verceil church in Montreal, next to "Free Gaza" and anti-police graffiti, is a poem. "This church is no m...

OTTAWA - The Conservatives introduced a motion Tuesday calling on the government to bar non-citizens convicted of serious crimes from making refugee claims. The motion introduced in the House of Commo...

The head of the law firm representing Canadian Robert Schellenberg says their client "definitely" won't face the death penalty again after China's top court overturned the sentence and announced his r...

OTTAWA - Information commissioner Caroline Maynard says Canadians should be able to use the Access to Information Act to request documents from the offices of the prime minister and other cabinet memb...

OTTAWA - A group of health care advocates is on Parliament Hill this week lobbying lawmakers and calling on the federal government to take a stand on Alberta's latest moves to expand private health ca...

OTTAWA - A federal union is warning of threats to public safety as employees at Transport Canada face job cuts. The Union of Canadian Transportation Employees said in a news release the cuts are being...

VANCOUVER - A Vancouver-based firm that operates a mine site in Mexico where 10 workers were abducted last month has heard from "a number of families" that their relatives have been found dead, the co...