Canada

As postponed NHL season resumes, some fans say the lure of parties will be strong

EDMONTON - As hockey fans gear up for a truncated season to begin next month, some in Canada's two "hub cities" say the temptation to celebrate - and flout physical distancing guidelines - may prove t...

Jul 13, 2020

N.W.T. ignored in Alberta monitoring suspension despite agreement: leaked emails

EDMONTON - Alberta suspended environmental monitoring for oilsands companies without notifying the Northwest Territories, despite a legally binding agreement to do so. The omission is revealed in a se...

Jul 13, 2020

Conservatives call for Trudeau to testify at committee on WE Charity deal

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives are planning to call Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to testify before a parliamentary committee on his government's decision to have WE Charity administer a $900-mill...

Jul 12, 2020

Iran report blaming mistakes for military's downing of PS752 dismissed

OTTAWA - A representative of Canadian families and loved ones killed in Iran's shootdown of a Ukrainian airliner in January says a new report blaming a misaligned missile battery and other mistak...

Jul 12, 2020

Conservatives call for Trudeau to testify at committee on WE Charity deal

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives are planning to call Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to testify before a parliamentary committee on his government's decision to have WE Charity administer a $900-mill...

Jul 12, 2020

Canada's largest Indigenous police force has never shot anyone dead

TORONTO - In its 26 years of existence, officers with Canada's largest Indigenous police force have never shot and killed anyone and no officer has died in the line of duty, despite a grinding lack of...

Jul 12, 2020

Quebec police continue search for father, one day after missing girls found dead

ST-APOLLINAIRE, Que. - Quebec provincial police are continuing their search for the father of two deceased girls who were the subject of an Amber Alert earlier this week. The bodies of Norah and Romy ...

Jul 12, 2020

Embattled Canadian Human Rights Museum in Winnipeg has history of controversy

WINNIPEG - Wanda Robson smiled wide as she clutched a $10 bill with a familiar face on the side - her sister, Viola Desmond, a Black woman and civil rights pioneer. It was a momentous day in fro...

Jul 12, 2020

Genetic detectives begin work to trace spread of COVID-19 in Canada

OTTAWA - Canada's public health experts have been racing to stop the spread of COVID-19 by trying to figure out how everyone is getting it, and whom they might have given it to. But even the best effo...

Jul 12, 2020

Bosnian-Canadians mark 25th anniversary of Srebrenica massacre

Mirela Hodzic Sivic's mother has told her stories about her father, but she doesn't have her own. Those memories were lost in the carnage of the Srebrenica massacre that claimed his life a quarter of ...

Jul 11, 2020