Nurse practitioners — not just doctors — would be allowed to provide medically assisted death to eligible patients under proposed legislation tabled Thursday by the federal government.
OTTAWA — Via Rail will ask the federal government by year's end to climb aboard a plan to run new "high-frequency," electric-hybrid trains in the busy Windsor-Quebec City corridor, says the head of the Crown corporation.
OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that two federal laws from the previous Conservative government's tough-on-crime agenda are unconstitutional.
WINNIPEG — Manitoba's Progressive Conservative leader is defending spending one-fifth of his time as Opposition leader in Costa Rica.
Blaine Taypotat was given 9 1/2 years for killing 23-year-old Justin Knackstedt near Saskatoon in May 2013.
The teen, who is now 18, allegedly shot and killed two teenaged brothers and a teacher and a teacher's aide in the small Dene community of La Loche on Jan. 22.