Canada

Toews Arrives Home

An air ambulance brought a brain-dead Grande Prairie dad back from Mexico late last night. Jeff Toews, 34, was taken to the University of Alberta hospital shortly after the plane landed at the Edmonton International Airport. CNEWS Taking cues from the provincial government, the city of Toronto...

WWI Veteran Dies

Percy Dwight Wilson, one of two surviving veterans of the First World War, has died at age 106. The Prime Minister's Office announced Wilson's passing Wednesday afternoon in a statement offering condolences to his family.CBC News An Alberta man has succumbed to rabies nine months after being...

CN Rail Sues Protestors

CN Rail has launched a lawsuit against Mohawk protesters who blocked a major Ontario rail corridor for more than a day last month, disrupting freight and passenger traffic. The land dispute protest near Deseronto, Ont., that began in the early hours of April 20 disrupted freight between Toronto and...

PQ Leader Boisclair Resigns

Parti Québécois Leader André Boisclair resigned Tuesday after weeks of speculation about his political future following the party's plunge in the March election and a public spat with his Bloc counterpart, Gilles Duceppe. CBC News The Conservative government is introducing legislation to ban...

Liberal MP Calls For Inquiry

Calls for a full public inquiry continued Tuesday after CTV News reported that an Ottawa computer consulting company received lucrative contracts from the RCMP for work on its pension plan -- despite serious concerns over their procurement. CTV News Alicia Ross was brutally beaten to death by her...

C. Black Trial Continues

The fraud trial of Conrad Black enters a critical phase this week in Chicago with the ex-media mogul's long-time business partner David Radler expected to take the stand. CNEWS A witness at the Air India inquiry today is expected to discuss last week's shocking testimony that the government had...

Toronto Pot Rally

There was lots of weed on the grass at Queen's Park yesterday. As many as 15,000 pot users crammed the lawn north of the legislature building for the Toronto Freedom Festival and the cornerstone event -- the ninth-annual Global Marijuana March. Toronto Sun A Winnipeg jury has convicted...

Standoff Ends Peacefully

Calgary city hall and surrounding buildings were evacuated yesterday after a man, claiming to be armed with a bomb and a gun, holed up in the municipal building's lobby. CNEWS French citizens turned out by the thousands at a Montreal school on Saturday to vote in France's presidential election....

Prairie Gopher Invasion

Prairie farmers say they're fighting a losing battle against a cute but voracious pest — the gopher. The small rodent has long been a part of life on the Prairies, but their numbers have gone up dramatically since the federal government banned the use of a potent pesticide — liquid strychnine....

Backlog Delayed Wiretap

After Canada's spy agency spent five months setting up a wiretap on the telephone of a known Sikh extremist, the organization struggled to find anyone who could translate the recorded conversations, the Air India inquiry heard Friday. CBC Reputed Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto, who admitted...

Opposition Hammers Tories

Opposition MPs demanded to know Friday when the Harper government knew about a specific case of prisoner abuse in Afghanistan that was revealed in a court document this week. Col. Steve Noonan, a former Canadian Forces commander in Afghanistan, revealed the incident of abuse in an affidavit filed...

Air India Testimony Outrage

Family members of the victims of the Air India bombing say they were shocked to learn that the RCMP received information warning of a possible imminent attack in the days leading up to the bombing. CTV News A new study says that while the majority of Canadian households rely on land-line...

Political Power Play

Hockey Canada President Bob Nicholson delivered a passionate defence of Shane Doan on Thursday to a House of Commons committee, saying he stands behind the embattled captain. CTV News Ontario Lt.-Gov. James Bartleman says he was scolded by an RCMP officer several days before the Air India...

Detainee Agreement Signed

Canada signed a new detainee transfer agreement with Afghanistan on Thursday, according to lawyers about to enter a federal court hearing on whether transfers should be halted. The new agreement, apparently modelled on the British deal, allows for follow up monitoring of prisoners transferred into...

Laval - Stolen Car Bust

Police near Montreal have busted what they are calling the biggest ever stolen-car operation in Canada. Laval police spokeswoman Nathalie Lorrain says investigators discovered three stolen vehicles Tuesday afternoon after a routine spot check of serial numbers. CTV News An Ontario man who spent...

Gas Price Inquiry

Amid rising gas costs and fears that prices at the pump will spike to record highs this summer, the federal government is facing calls for an inquiry into gasoline prices. The Consumers' Association of Canada began demanding the inquiry after gas prices rose sharply across Canada on Tuesday, with...

Auditor General AG Report

Auditor General Sheila Fraser will table her latest report Tuesday on the federal government's spending habits. Fraser will report on seven areas: government travel cards, student loans, Canadian trade missions abroad, the RCMP forensics program, government legal services, an agricultural income...

Allegations Of Torture

Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day says Corrections Canada officers in Afghanistan have heard first-hand allegations of torture. However, it isn't clear if those prisoners making the allegations were captured by Canadian or NATO troops, he said Monday. CTV News A former Vancouver police officer...

Air India Bomb Warning

The inquiry looking into the 1985 Air India bombing will be told Monday that government agencies were warned a number of times an airline attack was imminent, the CBC has learned. CBC News Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay says Beijing has assured him that a Canadian Muslim activist serving a...

Baird Fires Back

Environment Minister John Baird has fired a salvo back at former U.S. Vice President Al Gore in a war of words over the Conservatives' new climate policy.CTV News Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay says now is the "ideal time" for Canada and China to renew discussions on "a whole range of...