CALGARY — A man suspected of killing a woman and her toddler daughter has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder. Robert Andrew Leeming, 34, appeared via video before a justice of the peace in Calgary on Tuesday. His next court date is May 14. “We had the matter put over a week so […]
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — A judge hearing an unusual child pornography trial says his verdict will hinge on whether a Newfoundland man knew the sex doll he ordered online was designed to resemble a child. Judge Mark Pike heard closing arguments Tuesday in what’s believed to be the first trial in Canada dealing with child […]
Elizabeth May’s new husband John Kidder is hoping to join his wife at work in the House of Commons this fall. Kidder is running as a Green Party candidate in the fall federal election, party spokeswoman Rosie Emery told HuffPost Canada on Tuesday. He’ll try to snag the B.C. seat for Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Canyon, currently held […]
OTTAWA — Monday’s byelection win for the Green party in B.C. is a sign that Canadians are “preoccupied” with the issue of climate change going into this fall’s federal election, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Green hopeful Paul Manly took a commanding 37.3 per cent of the vote in the Vancouver Island riding of Nanaimo-Ladysmith, […]
VANCOUVER — Children and youth in British Columbia who are coping with psychiatric issues now have access to a medical identification service similar to those with diabetes or severe allergies. A pilot program launched at BC Children’s Hospital aims to help first responders and health-care professionals treat young mental-health patients in an emergency. Young patients […]
ISLAMABAD — A lawyer representing a Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy after she spent eight years on death row in Pakistan says she has arrived in Canada. Pakistani officials and others involved in the case said Wednesday that Aasia Bibi had left Pakistan to be reunited with her daughters in Canada, where they had been […]
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — A man facing child pornography charges for ordering a child-sized sex doll repeatedly told a St. John’s courtroom Monday that his only motivation was to replace his infant son who died more than 20 years earlier. Kenneth Harrisson ordered “Carol” from a Japanese website advertising childlike and adult sex dolls in […]
Nature is in more trouble now than at any other time in human history, with extinction looming over 1 million species of plants and animals, scientists said Monday in the United Nations’ first comprehensive report on biodiversity. It’s all because of humans, but it’s not too late to fix the problem, the report said. Species […]
The government of Myanmar on Tuesday released two Reuters journalists who were imprisoned for more than a year amid an international outcry over press freedom. Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, had been jailed since late 2017 over allegations that they received documents containing state secrets from a police officer. The government accused the […]
Edmonton MP Kerry Diotte has settled a defamation lawsuit against a student newspaper after it apologized for publishing two articles that called him racist. The University of Alberta’s Gateway Newspaper has retracted a news story and editorial that appeared last November. The articles had criticized Diotte for tweeting a photo of himself and white nationalist […]