Canada

Timeline of April 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting

TRURO, N.S. - The final report released Thursday into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting chronicles minute by minute how the tragedy unfolded. --- After 9 p.m. on April 18, the killer's rampage began ...

Mar 30, 2023

Liberals must create national autism framework after Tory bill gets unanimous support

OTTAWA - A bill that commits the government to tabling a federal framework on autism will become law after passing unanimously in the House of Commons this week. Conservative member of Parliament Mike...

Mar 30, 2023

Inquiry into N.S. mass shooting calls for sweeping changes to gun laws

OTTAWA - The inquiry into a mass shooting that left 22 people dead in Nova Scotia in 2020 is calling on the federal government to ban all semi-automatic handguns and many types of semi-automatic rifle...

Mar 30, 2023

Carbon price and rebates rising Saturday in Ontario, Prairies

OTTAWA - It will cost many Canadians a bit more to fill their gas tanks or heat their houses next month as the national carbon price rises Saturday in the three Prairie provinces and Ontario. At the s...

Mar 30, 2023

Supreme Court of Canada to review Charter arguments in fentanyl trafficking case

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will look at whether police violated a man's Charter rights while impersonating a drug dealer in order to arrest him. The sequence of events began in June 2017 whe...

Mar 30, 2023

Law exempting on-farm fuel from carbon tax heading to Senate

OTTAWA - A private member's bill that would create specific carve-outs for farmers in Canada's carbon pricing scheme has passed in the House of Commons. The bill would exempt farmers from paying for e...

Mar 30, 2023

Former Conservative MP Candice Bergen to help run Tory election campaign in Manitoba

WINNIPEG - Candice Bergen has signed on to co-chair the Manitoba Progressive Conservative election campaign, weeks after resigning her seat in the House of Commons. Bergen, who was the member of Parli...

Mar 30, 2023

Key recommendations of Nova Scotia mass shooting inquiry

TRURO, N.S. - Here are some of the main recommendations from the public inquiry into the mass shooting that claimed 22 lives in Nova Scotia on April 18-19, 2020: -- An external, independent review of ...

Mar 30, 2023

Quebec children under 14 to be banned from working most jobs

QUEBEC - The Quebec government has tabled a bill that would prevent children under the age of 14 from working most jobs. Labour Minister Jean Boulet says Bill 19 is the result of a recommendation from...

Mar 30, 2023

A look at the 22 Nova Scotians killed in Canada's worst mass shooting

TRURO, N.S. - The victims in Canada's worst mass shooting included an RCMP officer, a teacher, health-care workers, retirees, neighbours of the shooter and two correctional officers killed in their ho...

Mar 30, 2023