Tag Archives: justice

MEDICINE HAT, Alta. - An Alberta-based humanitarian organization says 13 Canadians who were detained in Ethiopia have returned to Canada. Canadian Humanitarian says in a statement on its website that ...

OTTAWA - Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese Embassy in Canada says Michael Kovrig has been allowed to have a telephone conversation with his father, who is very ill. The embassy says in a st...

OTTAWA - A federal watchdog has found the federal prison service failed to ensure a safe work environment at a Quebec penitentiary. In a report released Thursday, public sector integrity commissioner ...

COQUITLAM, B.C. - The British Columbia Review Board has reserved its decision on whether the director of a psychiatric hospital should have the discretion to allow limited, un...

OTTAWA - China and Russia are meddling in Canadian affairs, a national security-and-intelligence watchdog says in a new report that cites evidence of "significant and sustained" foreign interfere...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court won't hear a case involving the rights of public-sector workers in Alberta in a labour dispute with that province's government. The high court was deciding whether to h...

TORONTO - Defence lawyers for a Toronto man accused of sexually assaulting and strangling a young woman suggested Thursday that another man was responsible for the killing. Lawyers...

OTTAWA - The criminal case against Canada's top military judge has collapsed. The Canadian Armed Forces' top prosecutor announced Wednesday that he was withdrawing all four charges against chief milit...

CALGARY - Amnesty International says it's not enough for political leaders to condemn a sexually suggestive decal appearing to show teenage climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and they should do more to...

MONTREAL - A Quebec human rights tribunal has ordered two Montreal landlords to pay $5,000 in moral damages to a man who was refused an apartment rental because of his baby. H...