The jury trial for a Calgary man charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Sara Baillie and her daughter Taliyah Marsman in 2016 started on Monday morning. In her opening address to a five-man, seven-woman jury, Crown lawyer Carla MacPhail detailed the case she and co-prosecutor...
After finally letting a Canadian compete on Season 11 of RuPaul's Drag Race, the franchise is launching its very own Canadian incarnation of the popular reality show. Bell Media-owned streaming service Crave and OUTtv, which airs the wildly popular drag queen competition, are teaming up to produce a Canadian adaptation...
Former Canadian Treasury Board Secretary Jane Philpott said on Tuesday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau broke a parliamentary law by expelling her and former Veterans Affairs Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould from the Liberal Party's caucus last week. Philpott told the House of Commons that the party did not follow the legislated...
Most Canadians killed in police encounters since 2000 had mental health or substance abuse issues. New data shows 18 black men and one black boy were among the 52 people killed in encounters with Toronto police officers between 2000-2017. That outnumbers other racial groups, analysis by CBC News has found. No government...
Quebec City dumped about 46 million litres of raw sewage into the St. Lawrence River over 12 hours in order to do scheduled maintenance work on a pumping station, the city said Friday. A spokesperson for the city said everything went as planned. The city said earlier this week that neglecting...
The Kielburger Affair is a fine old self-made mess for Justin Trudeau and his government, but what’s conspicuously missing is any real sense of peril. The media, ethics commissioner and House of Commons finance committee are on an archaeological expedition through the Kielburger-Trudeau-Liberal relationship and the Trudeau Liberals’ decision...
Report finds Canadians waste a lot of food? An international environmental group suggests that reducing Canada’s colossal food waste would be a smart business move and good for the environment. “You can make a really strong business case for action,” said David Donaldson of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, an...
A man in his 60s and a woman in her 40s were rushed to hospital in critical condition after the shooting at a home near Clementine Dr. and Pergola Way in Brampton. Police said they believe the shooting is an isolated incident. Const. Bancroft Wright told reporters a male suspect...
A massive dump of dead crabs along a main northern highway has triggered a major investigation. The 250 male Dungeness crabs were found rotting beside a Highway 16 rest stop, west of Smithers.B.C., last week. Officials believe it's linked to ongoing illegal seafood sales along B.C.'s North Coast. 'Very unusual' "I've never...
On Tuesday, Oct. 13, Ontario reported 1,553 new cases of COVID-19 over a two-day stretch. That includes 807 cases that should have been announced on Thanksgiving Monday, and 746 cases as part of Tuesday’s update. The province has now gone 16 straight days of exceeding the 500-case mark. Before the recent...