Canada

Lawsuit over African mine can be heard in British Columbia: Supreme Court

OTTAWA - A human-rights lawsuit against a Canadian mining company can be heard in British Columbia, even though it involves events in Africa, the Supreme Court of Canada ...

Feb 28, 2020

Manitoba pushes ahead with carbon tax court challenge; still hoping for deal

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is pushing ahead with a court challenge of the federal carbon tax although Premier Brian Pallister says he'd still like to see a deal with Ottawa. Pallister say...

Feb 28, 2020

Alberta seeks partners for 164 parks to focus spending on 'high value areas'

EDMONTON - The Alberta government wants to hand off management of 164 provincially run parks to outside groups. The move was hinted at in yesterday's budget and confirmed by a spokeswoman for Environm...

Feb 28, 2020

Pipeline talks with hereditary chiefs resume for second day in northern B.C.

SMITHERS, B.C. - The hereditary chiefs of the Wet'suwet'en are meeting for a second day with senior federal and provincial ministers as they try to break an impasse in a pipeline dispute tha...

Feb 28, 2020

Beyak suspended again from Senate despite apology for posting offensive letters

OTTAWA - The Senate has voted to suspend Sen. Lynn Beyak a second time over derogatory letters about Indigenous Peoples posted on her website. Senators have approved a report from the upper house...

Feb 27, 2020

Trudeau to meet provincial, territorial leaders amid heightened tensions

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will sit down with provincial and territorial leaders on March 13 to wrestle with some of the thorny issues that are dividing the nation. The first ministers' me...

Feb 27, 2020

Champagne heads to Europe to discuss Iran crash in Ukraine, meet troops in Latvia

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says he will make a renewed push for compensation for families of people who died in the Ukraine International Airlines crash on a th...

Feb 27, 2020

'It hurt:' Explicit Greta sticker linked to Alberta company draws outrage

CALGARY - An Alberta woman says she has complained to the RCMP about a decal bearing an energy services company's logo below a cartoon depicting what appears to be the sexual assault of 17-y...

Feb 27, 2020

Ontario coronavirus case is province's first instance of human-to-human spread

TORONTO - Ontario now has a sixth confirmed case of the novel coronavirus, and while it is the first instance in the province of human-to-human transmission, health officials say the risk is still low...

Feb 27, 2020

MPs to examine privacy implications of facial-recognition technology used by RCMP

OTTAWA - The controversial use of facial-recognition tools will soon be scrutinized by MPs. Members of the House of Commons committee on access to information, privacy and eth...

Feb 27, 2020