Canada

Trans Mountain pipeline expansion gets green light to open for May 1

CALGARY - The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is complete and the Canada Energy Regulator has given the go-ahead for the project to open. The regulator says it has approved the last remaining "leave...

Apr 30, 2024

'Biological sex' sports bill is quickly quashed in B.C. legislature

VICTORIA - A B.C. Conservative private member's bill to classify publicly funded sports teams and events according to the "biological sex" of participants, banning transgender athletes, didn't make it...

Apr 30, 2024

With portable toilets and barricades, Gaza protest camp at UBC digs in for long haul

VANCOUVER - Pro-Palestinian protesters who set up an encampment at the University of British Columbia campus in Vancouver have brought in food, water and other supplies to prepare for what may become ...

Apr 30, 2024

CP NewsAlert: Speaker kicks Poilievre out of Commons over unparliamentary comments

OTTAWA - Speaker Greg Fergus kicked Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre out of the House of Commons during question period today. All Conservative MPs have left the chamber in protest after Fergus ga...

Apr 30, 2024

Justice minister says recent protest over Israel-Hamas war at his home crossed a line

OTTAWA - Justice Minister Arif Virani says protesters who took their cause to his home over the weekend crossed a line. A few dozen pro-Palestinian protesters showed up at Virani's Toronto-area home o...

Apr 30, 2024

Grandparents, grandchild among 4 dead in wrong-way 401 pursuit crash

Two grandparents and their infant grandchild were killed on a busy stretch of Highway 401 on Monday night after a van being chased by police east of Toronto crashed while going the wrong way, causing ...

Apr 30, 2024

Virani says Poilievre's willingness to use notwithstanding clause threatens rights

OTTAWA - Canada's justice minister says the notwithstanding clause should only be used as a measure of last resort after Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre suggested he wouldn't hesitate to wield it...

Apr 30, 2024

'All options still on the table' for limiting plastics production: Guilbeault

OTTAWA - Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says all options to eliminate plastic waste are still on the table in negotiations for a global plastic treaty including putting legislated caps on how ...

Apr 30, 2024

Spy watchdog warns of 'significant legal risks' if cyberops breach international law

OTTAWA - A new watchdog report says Canada's electronic spy agency needs to clearly spell out how its cyberoperations comply with international law. The National Security and Intelligence Review Agenc...

Apr 30, 2024

London Drugs probes if personal data was breached in cyber incident that shut stores

VANCOUVER - London Drugs is investigating whether personal data was compromised in a cybersecurity incident that prompted the company to close all of its stores across Western Canada until further not...

Apr 30, 2024