Tag Archives: Justice

VANCOUVER - As members of the Wet'suwet'en Nation mull a draft deal over rights and title, another Indigenous community knows what that kind of recognition could look like.  The Tsilhqot'in Natio...

WINNIPEG - Caught between a federal government demanding a rising carbon tax and some Progressive Conservative supporters opposed to any such levy, Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister offered a compromis...

VICTORIA - Dozens of Indigenous youth and their supporters packed blankets and tarps Thursday, ending a 17-day protest at British Columbia's legislature that saw a fire burning constantly&nb...

TORONTO - A man who killed 10 people when he drove a van into crowds of pedestrians on a busy Toronto sidewalk in 2018 admitted to planning and carrying out the attack, court heard on Thursday. T...

OTTAWA - The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project has cleared another legal hurdle. The Supreme Court of Canada has decided not to hear five challenges from environment and Indigen...

Toronto police say a 14-year-old boy who was the subject of an Amber Alert has been found safe after he was allegedly abducted on his way to school. In a tweet Thursday night, police say the teen was ...

CALGARY - Alberta's top court is allowing a dozen submissions to be heard from advocacy groups and First Nations in the province's constitutional challenge to Ottawa's re...

Montreal police confirmed Wednesday they are investigating recent acts of vandalism at Buddhist temples as potential hate crimes. Louis Le, a volunteer at the Quan Am temple, ...

TORONTO - A group of Canadian women who suffered ill-effects from implantation of a medical device called transvaginal mesh will receive a total of $21.5 million in compensation under a proposed class...

BRIDGEWATER, N.S. - Moments before a former Nova Scotia police chief was sentenced to 15 months in jail for sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl, the victim read a statement in court, describing Joh...