Canada

Sinking ferry 'honest mistake' - defence

  Photo: Contributed Karl Lilgert is seen leaving the BC Supreme Court in downtown Vancouver, Thursday January, 17, 2013. The defence lawyer for the crew member charged in the sinking of a passenger ferry off the B.C. coast says the disaster was the result...

AB gov. accused of lying to union

  Photo: CBC The union that represents Alberta's jail guards is accusing the provincial government of using heavy-handed tactics to deal with corrections staff following their illegal strike. The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees says deputy solicitor...

Cancer drug linked to disease

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. This file image, provided by Genentech, shows a vial and package for the cancer drug Avastin. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-ho-Genentech, File Health Canada is warning that the cancer drug Avastin has been linked in rare cases...

Alberta wants to recoup jail guard costs

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Correctional officers take part in a strike at the Edmonton Remand Centre on Saturday April 27, 2013. Alberta's deputy premier says a labour dispute where guards at provincial jails have walked off the job has resulted in...

BTO Bachman not guilty on sex charges

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Tim Bachman, the co-founder of the rock band Bachman Turner Overdrive, leaves the B.C. Provincial Courthouse in Chilliwack, Monday, April 8, 2013. Bachman has been found not guilty on sex charges involving a girl between the...

Corruption at anti-corruption rally

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. A police officer tries to take a flag away from a protester during a May Day anti-capitalist demonstration Wednesday, May 1, 2013 in Montreal.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz Hundreds of anti-capitalist protesters were...

Man with no arms fights seatbelt ticket

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Steve Simonar stands in front of his modified pickup truck in Saskatoon, Sask., Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Saskatoon police say they have safety concerns about Simonar who has no arms and was caught driving without wearing a...

Clan gives seal of approval to Canada

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. A pipe band member wears a sporran at "The Peine International Pipe Band Championships" in Peine, Germany, May 5, 2012.  THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Jens Schlueter/dapd Canada's bid to challenge the...

Federal Tory money machine activated

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks at a centenary event for Leaside, the Toronto suburb where he grew up, in Toronto on Saturday April 27, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young Stephen Harper's Conservatives may...

Postmedia newspapers continue cuts

Postmedia Network Canada Corp. will no longer have publishers at three of its newspapers, as part of broad changes to centralize operations and reduce costs.   Photo: CTV A man stops to look at newspaper boxes in Vancouver, B.C. in this January 2010 file photo....

Woman, 64, and dog rescued from mud

  Photo: Google Maps A central Ontario woman is recovering after being rescued from a mud hole where she was stuck for almost 12 hours, while her dog stayed at her side. Police say 64-year-old Sandra Van Alstyne was out walking her dog in the cottage country...

Alberta guards end strike

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Alberta sheriffs take part in a strike as they joined correction guards, setting up a picket line outside the Edmonton courthouse in Edmonton, Alberta on Monday April 29, 2013.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson An...

Canadian jihadist & bombing suspect

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. In this undated photo provided by the Dagestani branch of the Federal Security Service William Plotnikov, right, poses for a photo. Security officials suspected ties between elder Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev and...

Capt. Canada uses $5 bill to call home

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty unveils the new polymer $5 and $10 bank notes during a press conference at the Bank of Canada in Ottawa on Tuesday, April 30, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick Chris Hadfield phoned...

Feds crack down on EI overpayments

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Auditor General of Canada Michael Ferguson speaks to reporters at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 regarding the 2013 Spring Report. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick Ottawa is...

Quebec election laws were ignored

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Gilles Cloutier, ex-employee of Roche engineering firm, is seen in a frame grab from the video feed at the Charbonneau inquiry looking into corruption in the Quebec construction industry Tuesday, April 30, 2013 in Montreal. THE...

MIA soldier gets prison after Canada trip

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. United States Iraq war resister Kimberly Rivera speaks at a press conference in Toronto on Friday, August 31, 2012. Rivera, an American soldier who fled to Canada after she became disillusioned with the Iraq war is to be...

Hang-gliding pilot pleads not guilty

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. William (Jon) Orders is seen leaving the court house in Chilliwack, June 18, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward The man accused of criminal negligence causing death and obstruction of justice in connection with...

Improper strip search = no gun charge

  Photo: CTV File photo of a gun being tested on an armoured backpack - AP Photo/Rick Bowmer An Ontario judge has stayed all charges against a 13-year-old boy who allegedly brought a gun to his elementary school because he was improperly strip-searched at...

Canadians are socially acceptable

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Michael Goodwin, Senior Partner for HTC, displays an HTC First cell phone wit the new Facebook interface at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Thursday, April 4, 2013. One in three anglophone Canadians says not a...