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When lawyers for Vancouver General Hospital and 12-year-old Ximena Renaerts agreed to an out-of-court settlement on the eve of a trial in Miss Renaerts' wrongful-injury civil suit against the hospital, [...]

From the moment Pope John Paul II touched down in Toronto last July for World Youth Day, his message began inspiring tens of thousands of teenagers. In fact, televised scenes [...]

It is a typical weekday night at the Port Moody Rec Centre in suburban Vancouver. On the ice, the hometown Rebels are skating against the Arbutus Club Avalanche in a [...]

Would she be Spiderman, Buzz Lightyear, a bride, a doctor, a dog, a dinosaur or a bumblebee? In the frantic few days before Halloween, five-year-old Breanna Himmelright could not decide [...]

On April 24 of this year, a law professor at the University of B.C. signed a harshly-worded 12-page internal report. Officially, the document was intended to end a bitter 13-month [...]

Life goes on as usual around the Port Coquitlam, B.C., farm of Robert William Pickton, where Canada's most massive murder investigation moves sombrely towards winter. Shoppers at the Home Depot [...]

Do Canadians care about protecting freedom of expression and a free press? Most say they do. After all, just look at the recent national furor in defence of journalistic independence [...]

At the height of his political career, then premier Glen Clark counted one of his B.C. predecessors, W.A.C. Bennett, as one of his idols. The fact the late Mr. Bennett [...]

In announcing his intention last month to launch a lawsuit against the RCMP to force it to stop using a surveillance camera in Kelowna, federal Privacy Commissioner George Radwanski cited [...]

A few miles outside of Shellbrook, 30 miles west of Prince Albert, there is a tricky little turn on a backcountry dirt byway known as the Snake Hill Road. Not [...]

In the fall of 1989, a group of B.C. Indians paddled a traditional war canoe, the Lootaas, up the Seine River to Paris and, upon landing, planted a flag bearing [...]

It is a litany with which Canadians have become all too familiar: the country's Natives suffer more infant fatalities, fall victim to more illnesses and die younger on average than [...]

Ontario's anti-pedophile police task force, Project Truth, wrapped up in late August with word that, while its work had led to the laying of 115 criminal charges against 15 individuals, [...]

It has been a summer of aboriginal political agitation-a summer whose most extraordinary event came at a UN conference where Assembly of First Nations national chief Matthew Coon Come denounced [...]

The late Pierre Trudeau often spoke of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms as his greatest achievement. In 1991, for example, the former prime minister defended his empowerment of judges [...]

It was at the B.C. Children's Hospital in Vancouver on June 14, 1995, that Lisa Neave's life took an unimaginable turn for the worse. Falsely accused of deliberately harming her [...]

From the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms down through provincial human rights codes, Canadians can find many assurances of their country's support of free speech. As was made clear [...]

Of all the senior governments in Canada, Prince Edward Island's is the only one not to have enacted freedom-of-information (FOI) legislation. But while Canada has, for the most part, officially [...]

When he rose in the House of Commons on March 27, Prime Minister Jean Chretien exuded all the self-assurance and political savvy that Canadians have come to expect of a [...]

In 1994, Liberal cabinet minister Sheila Finestone, then secretary of state for multiculturalism, announced Ottawa would not pay compensation to any of a multitude of groups asking for redress for [...]

Despite public opinion running heavily to the contrary, the House of Commons voted in 1976 to eliminate capital punishment in Canada. In a precedent-setting ruling last month, the Supreme Court [...]

When asked about the existence of any drug-related corruption within the RCMP, Sergeant John Ward shares a story about his best friend, 'a drug cop.' 'He found over US$300,000 in [...]

A scent of scandal continues to trouble a Liberal MP from B.C. In their search for someone to run in the 1998 Port Moody-Coquitlam by-election, the federal Liberals commissioned a [...]

Reaction to a B.C. suicide avoids addressing the underlying problem A bitterly cold wind swept across the plaza in front of the Prince George, B.C., courthouse on the afternoon of [...]

Fallout from the infamous Newfoundland sex-abuse scandal threatens two B.C. schools The musty-smelling corridors running along the main hall of Vancouver College are covered with photographs and printed memorabilia marking [...]

A Canadian skating judge wages a solitary fight for fairness in international competitions As she sat talking with her son Derek at the kitchen table of their West Vancouver home [...]

Even Oprab was duped Publicity over a stock scammer's extravagance angers BC. victims Rule number one in the B.C. Securities Commission's seven-point 'How to Spot a Con Artist' list is [...]

A case against a B.C. professor sparks demands to trash the human-rights industry Only a few select types of allegedly aggrieved persons gain unquestioned entry into the inner circle of [...]

A B.C. women's shelter is on the hot seat for refusing to help police catch a U.S. fugitive British Columbia's Sunshine Coast is just a 30-minute ferry ride north of [...]

The B.C. government's 'war' on Big Tobacco threatens everyone's civil rights, say critics The B.C. government makes no apologies for waging war on the Canadian tobacco industry. In fact, government [...]

Police probe a B.C. abortion survivor's case while doctors and nurses run for cover Last May this magazine reported that nurses at Calgary's Foothills hospital were being forced to participate [...]

In late August 2008, criminals strongly suspected of being animal-rights extremists broke into a farm in the Fraser Valley region of British Columbia and released about 6,000 mink from their […]