Canada

Policing must be adequate to keep 'everyone' safe in Indigenous lobster dispute: PM

HALIFAX - Justin Trudeau called Friday for federal agencies to ensure those involved in an Indigenous-led lobster fishery are safe, a day after a Mi'kmaq chief accused him of offering words rather tha...

Oct 16, 2020

'A tragedy for Quebec': Pierre Laporte's death remembered 50 years later

MONTREAL - At age 91, Marc Lalonde still remembers the shock he felt on Oct. 17, 1970 when Pierre Laporte's body was discovered in the trunk of a car at an airport south of Montreal, a week after he h...

Oct 16, 2020

New quantum centre in Ontario to probe nature's deepest and weirdest secrets

WATERLOO, Ont. - Canadian research will probe some of the deepest and strangest properties of the world within the atom in a new centre for the study of quantum matter. Quantum matter is the basic sci...

Oct 16, 2020

N.S., B.C. police watchdogs to probe officers' destruction of evidence in Assoun case

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's police watchdog agency is asking its British Columbia equivalent to assist in probing whether officers broke the law when evidence was destroyed in the case of a wrongfully con...

Oct 16, 2020

Provinces need to address racism in the health-care system: Trudeau

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says provinces must do more to address racism in the health-care system, saying reconciliation with Indigenous people is not up to the federal government alone. ...

Oct 16, 2020

Psychiatrist takes witness stand in Fredericton mass murder trial

FREDERICTON - Psychiatrist Dr. Ralph Holly has taken the stand in the first degree murder trial of Matthew Raymond in Fredericton. Raymond, is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Donnie ...

Oct 16, 2020

First Nations elder alleges she was questioned about alcohol use in Winnipeg hospital

WINNIPEG - A First Nations elder says her symptoms were initially ignored and she was questioned about alcohol use during a stay at a Winnipeg hospital. Sadie North, who is 72, was brought to Grace Ho...

Oct 16, 2020

Northwest Territories reports three presumptive positive cases of COVID-19

YELLOWKNIFE - The chief public health officer for the Northwest Territories says three people have received presumptive positive test results for COVID-19. A release says one of the presumed cas...

Oct 16, 2020

PM Trudeau says Canada won't stop calling out China for 'coercive diplomacy'

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government will not stop standing up for human rights in China - or calling out Beijing for its coercive approach to diplomacy.Trudeau says that include...

Oct 16, 2020

Champagne meets Belarus's exiled opposition, as Trudeau talks to Armenian leader

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will ask Turkey's president to help bring Azerbaijan and Armenian combatants to the negotiating table. Trudeau says he will deliver that message to Presi...

Oct 16, 2020