OTTAWA — Canada's war in Iraq and Syria is expected to cost more than half a billion dollars by this time next year, Defence Minister Jason Kenney revealed Wednesday, one day after federal budget reports stamped the estimate as secret.
WINNIPEG — Manitoba's family services minister has tearfully promised to end the practice of putting children in government care in hotels after the serious assault of a young girl.
EDMONTON — Alberta prosecutors will appeal the acquittal of an Ontario trucker charged with the murder of an aboriginal woman. A jury found Bradley Barton not guilty last month of first-degree murder in the death of Cindy Gladue.
OTTAWA — A Conservative senator is miffed that she's being asked to justify claiming a meal expense while travelling when she could have eaten a free airline breakfast of "ice-cold Camembert with broken crackers."
GATINEAU, Que. — Suspended senator Patrick Brazeau will testify in his own defence at his ongoing trial for charges of assault and sexual assault, his lawyer said Thursday.
LOS ANGELES — Joni Mitchell's famous fans are voicing their support and worry for the Canadian folk song icon while she is hospitalized in Los Angeles.