OTTAWA — The commander of Canada's combat operations in the Middle East says preparations to send air strikes into Syria are in the final stages and bombs could be falling on Islamic State targets within days.
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.