Tag Archives: Justice

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's health minister says a judge's decision against a surgeon advocating for patients' rights to pay for private medical care highlights the significant role of the pub...

EDMONTON - Two RCMP officers who were charged in the shooting death of a 31-year-old man in northern Alberta two years ago are now facing manslaughter charges. Cpl. Randy Stenger and Const. Jessica Br...

NEW YORK - Actor Anthony Rapp and another man filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against actor Kevin Spacey, accusing him of sexual assaults in the 1980s when they were teens. Rapp, who starred in "Rent" on...

OTTAWA - The ability to express oneself helps create a healthy democracy, the Supreme Court of Canada said Thursday in setting out rules for deciding when a lawsuit has merit or is ...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's Tory leader says the province's attorney general is in conflict of interest when it comes to setting terms of reference for the public inquiry into the April mass shooting...

HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia judge has rejected another legal motion filed by a woman trying to stop her husband from receiving a medically assisted death. In a decision released today, Nova Scotia Court o...

SAANICH, B.C. - A python that twice escaped from its owner in the Victoria area has not survived its second bid for freedom. Saanich police say the snake, which was nearly 1.5 metres long,&n...

A Statistics Canada study says gay, lesbian, bisexual and other sexual minority people are nearly three times more likely than heterosexuals to experience sexual or physical assaul...

LAKE LOUISE, Alta. - A Prince Albert man is facing two charges after a cougar was allegedly harassed with a slingshot in Banff National Park. Parks Canada says in a statement that its wardens received...

OTTAWA - A B.C. fisher was fined $8,000 last month and banned from possessing explosives for three years after he threw an explosive device into a group of sea lions in March 2019. Video footage ...