Canada

Salt marsh option missing in plan to shield N.S.-N.B. land link from floods: experts

HALIFAX - An engineering study calling for higher dikes to safeguard the land link between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick should have also suggested creating natural buffers to absorb rising oceans, so...

Mar 23, 2022

Canada, U.S. enter talks on deal to access, share data in criminal investigations

WASHINGTON - Canada and the United States have started talking about ways to make it easier for law enforcement officials in either country to navigate stringent privacy laws when investigating crimin...

Mar 23, 2022

Thoughts on Liberal-NDP deal, Trudeau in Brussels: In The News for March 23

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of March 23 ... What we are watching in Canada .....

Mar 23, 2022

Daughter-in-law died: Calgary man warns of rockfall on Trans-Canada Highway in B.C.

CALGARY - Alan Tennant and his wife, Rona, were driving on the Trans-Canada Highway through the Rocky Mountains earlier this month when the unthinkable happened. The two were on their way to Golden, B...

Mar 23, 2022

Behind the scenes of the removal of residential schools memorial from Parliament Hill

OTTAWA - The federal government had originally hoped to remove a Parliament Hill memorial dedicated to Indigenous children who died and went missing from residential schools months earlier than actual...

Mar 23, 2022

Political scientist Lori Turnbull says confidence and supply deal is unnecessary

OTTAWA - New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh could face some tough questions as the ink dries on a newly announced deal that would see his party support the Liberal minority government for the next thre...

Mar 23, 2022

Victoria council debates First Nation reconciliation fund option for property taxes

VICTORIA - Homeowners in Victoria could soon have the option to voluntarily add between five and 10 per cent extra to their annual property tax bill as a contribution to a reconciliation fund for loca...

Mar 23, 2022

Trudeau arrives in Brussels to address European Parliament ahead of NATO, G7 talks

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kicks off a whirlwind trip with an address to the European Parliament in Brussels later today on his second visit to the continent this month. Trudeau will stress the imp...

Mar 23, 2022

Feds mum on next step in fighter jet competition

OTTAWA - Federal procurement officials won't say when Canada will take the next step in the years-long process of selecting a new fighter jet. The federal government announced in December that it had ...

Mar 22, 2022

Student demonstration marks decade since Quebec's so-called 'Maple Spring' protests

MONTREAL - Several hundred students took to the streets of Montreal today, marking a decade since their peers did the same during the so-called "Maple Spring" of 2012. It was one of several demonstrat...

Mar 22, 2022