Author Archives: Syndicated Content

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - One of two men accused of conspiring to kill Mounties at the border blockade at Coutts, Alta., characterized the protest as a last stand and told his mother there "will be a war" i...

OTTAWA - Liberal MP Ken McDonald, who opposed his party over the federal carbon price, says he won't run in the next federal election. McDonald has represented the riding of Avalon in Newfoundland and...

YELLOWKNIFE - A helicopter pilot has died while fighting a wildfire in the Northwest Territories. Transportation Safety Board officials had said an aircraft operated by Great Slave Helicopters crashed...

VANCOUVER - A group of British Columbia teachers has launched a human rights complaint against their union, accusing the BC Teachers' Federation of having "engaged in and enabled antisemitism." Vancou...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's summer campaign circuit will not include a stop at the Calgary Stampede. The annual 10-day rodeo and festival is usually a must-do event for politicians and Tr...

TORONTO - The University of Toronto has suffered irreparable harm from a pro-Palestinian protest encampment that has seized control of part of its downtown campus, an Ontario judge said Tuesday in ord...

WINNIPEG - A Manitoba man convicted of murder 50 years ago is getting another court date and a chance to clear his name. Clarence Woodhouse was found guilty in 1974 of fatally beating and stabbing a r...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba RCMP have been dealing with poor weather as they search for two missing boaters on Lake Winnipeg. Three men, aged 28, 29 and 31, were returning from hunting moose in the north basi...

TORONTO - A former Progressive Conservative backbencher in Premier Doug Ford's government says she is disappointed with his "unilateral decision" to kick her out of caucus. Goldie Ghamari, who represe...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and new NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi are aiming to flip pancakes, and a few votes, at the upcoming Calgary Stampede. The 10-day rodeo event draws hundreds of thou...