TORONTO — Canada's rising detention of non-criminal foreigners in maximum-security prisons amounts to arbitrary, cruel and inhumane treatment that violates international obligations, a disturbing new report concludes.
WINNIPEG — Manitoba is set to become the first province to formally apologize to aboriginal adoptees today.
MERRITT, B.C. — The B.C. government has announced it will conduct a scientific review of biosolids, or treated human waste, that is being spread across parts of the Nicola Valley.
Twenty-nine-year-old Matthew Foerster was convicted of first-degree murder in April last year and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.
VICTORIA — A 31-year-old Victoria man has been found not guilty of second-degree murder in the April 2008 death of a toddler in his care.
OTTAWA — The battered Senate was reeling from yet another body blow Thursday as published allegations that Sen. Don Meredith was having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl were referred to the Senate ethics officer.