Canada

First Nations child welfare case gets underway in Federal Court today

Ottawa's legal challenge of two rulings involving First Nations children taken from their families by an underfunded child-welfare system will be heard in Federal Court today. The federal government h...

Jun 14, 2021

Canadian producers hoping U.S. eases cannabis prohibitions nervously eyeing calendar

WASHINGTON - Canada's cannabis industry, banking on the chance to expand into the United States, is nervously eyeing the American political calendar and the Biden administration's narrow legislative w...

Jun 14, 2021

Trial set to begin for Linda O'Leary, charged in fatal 2019 boat crash

A trial is set to begin today for Linda O'Leary, the wife of celebrity businessman Kevin O'Leary, who is charged in a boat crash that killed two people. The collision -- which took place on Lake Josep...

Jun 14, 2021

Nathaniel Veltman, accused of killing four in London, Ont., set to appear in court

A court hearing is scheduled today for the man accused of deliberately striking and killing four members of a Muslim family with his truck in London, Ont. Nathaniel Veltman made a brief appearance in ...

Jun 14, 2021

Trudeau pledges support for Ukraine, mum on support for next step in NATO membership

BRUSSELS - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is joining a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization with Canada reiterating its broad support for Ukraine, but not whether it will back a move by Ky...

Jun 13, 2021

Montreal-area ambulance paramedics announce strike; say medical care to be maintained

MONTREAL - The union representing ambulance paramedics in the Montreal and Laval areas says just over 1,000 of its members will be on strike as of midnight. Union spokeswoman Eve-Marie Lacasse says th...

Jun 13, 2021

Police mourn death of Mountie killed in the line of duty in rural Saskatchewan

Police are mourning the death of an RCMP officer killed in the line of duty in rural Saskatchewan yesterday. Const. Shelby Patton was hit by an allegedly stolen truck that he had pulled over at about ...

Jun 13, 2021

Senior officer who golfed with Vance has power over military police investigations

OTTAWA - One of the senior military officers who golfed with former chief of the defence staff Jonathan Vance has the power to direct military investigations. Vice-chief of the defence staff Lt.-Gen. ...

Jun 13, 2021

'No such thing as impossible:' Nunavut MP reflects on time in Parliament

Sitting in her Ottawa apartment on a hot morning, Mumilaaq Qaqqaq thinks about her grandparents, who, like most Nunavut Inuit of their generation, grew up on the land. She thinks about her father, who...

Jun 13, 2021

Indigenous child-welfare battle heads to court despite calls for Ottawa to drop cases

Ottawa's controversial legal challenge of a pair of rulings involving First Nations children torn from their families by a chronically underfunded childcare system heads to Federal Court Monday, despi...

Jun 13, 2021