A motorist who is alleged to have run down a young girl on his 18th birthday and had fought to be tried as a minor has been ordered to stand trial as an adult.
OTTAWA — There’s no need for Canada to apologize for abuse and exploitation suffered by thousands of poor children shipped here from Britain starting in the 19th century, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Monday.
MUMBAI, India — Prime Minister Stephen Harper experienced the complexities and contradictions of India on Monday with a chaotic tour schedule that took him from the gritty and moving scene of a terrorist attack to Bollywood star power and the corridors of business power.
The country’s chief public health officer says Canada is leading the world when it comes to the percentage of its citizens vaccinated against the swine flu.
Counter-insurgency operations will eventually displace the army’s traditional peacemaking capabilities as it prepares for life after the Afghan mission, says the general in charge of Canada’s land forces.
A Porter Airlines flight out of Halifax was forced to turn back Saturday after the pilot began losing consciousness and the co-pilot quickly took control of the aircraft.
It’s up to the government, not the courts, to decide whether Omar Khadr should come home to Canada, a federal lawyer has told the Supreme Court.
Canada’s prison watchdog is sounding the alarm over the plight of aboriginal prisoners, warning that without urgent action the situation will soon become a crisis.
Suddenly, the moon looks exciting again. It has lots of water, scientists said Friday — a thrilling discovery that sent a ripple of hope for a future astronaut outpost in a place that has always seemed barren and inhospitable.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologized Monday to thousands of impoverished British children shipped to Australia in past centuries with the promise of a better life, only to suffer abuse and neglect thousands of miles from home.
Several dozen people held a rally in downtown Edmonton Sunday to demand that Omar Khadr be sent back to Canada to face trial in a civilian court.
Khadr, 23, is being held by the Americans at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for allegedly throwing a grenade that killed a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan seven years ago.
Are you confused by the H1N1 numbers? Wondering why public health officials are making such a fuss about a virus that has so far killed so few people?
You aren’t alone.
Heavy rains deluging British Columbia’s south coast and parts of Vancouver Island have prompted the provincial Environment Ministry to warn residents to be on the lookout for flooding along the region’s rivers.
A group representing thousands of poor children who were shipped from Britain to Canada in past centuries, where many worked as child labourers, is pleased with a planned apology from the British prime minister.
Canada’s newly armed border guards have claimed their first victim: a hapless moose.
Are you confused by the H1N1 numbers? Wondering why public health officials are making such a fuss about a virus that has so far killed so few people?
HAMMONDVALE, N.B. — More than 90 years after she died and her remains were inexplicably forgotten in storage in a London catacomb, Gladys Fowler is finally home in Canada.
Firefighters look on after battling a three-alarm fire in Vancouver, B.C., on Thursday. No one was hurt but the blaze levelled five businesses in a heritage area.
Torchbearer Michael Dinn is seen carrying the Olympic Flame in a traditional fishing dory in Petty Harbour, NL, Friday. Cape Spear is the most easternly point in Canada and North America. The Olympic Flame which traveled all the way from Olympia in Greece is now on a 106 day cross country relay which will end in Vancouver on Feb. 12, 2010 to mark the start of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
Palestinian election officials Thursday recommended calling off January’s presidential vote, a step that could result in embattled President Mahmoud Abbas staying in office indefinitely.
