Canada

Trudeau to take UN Security Council pitch to Caribbean next week

OTTAWA - Next stop: the Caribbean. That is where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be heading next week as he continues making his pitch for why Canada should have a seat on the United Nations Securi...

Feb 13, 2020

As Africa trip nears end, Trudeau visits farm in Senegal helped by Canadian aid

KERI, Senegal - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is visiting a farm in Senegal's "California" today, seeing first-hand the benefits of some Canadian aid funding. The Niayes region is feeling the effects ...

Feb 13, 2020

Further measures coming to protect endangered right whales, minister says

HALIFAX - Further measures are coming to protect the endangered North Atlantic right whale in Canadian waters, federal Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan told a meeting on fishing gear innovation Tu...

Feb 13, 2020

Trudeau in Senegal for final African stop of UN Security Council campaigning

DAKAR, Senegal - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Senegal late Tuesday for an official visit that will test his commitment to gender equality with one of Canada's closest francophone...

Feb 13, 2020

TSB finds defect in beacon on helicopter that crashed in Quebec, killing two

MONTREAL - The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is suggesting periodic inspections of emergency locator transmitters after finding a defect in the one aboard a helicopter that crashed in Que...

Feb 13, 2020

Federal NDP seeks provincial support for national pharmacare plan

OTTAWA - The New Democrats are asking the provinces to support their promised universal pharmacare legislation, hoping to win premiers over by calling on Ottawa to increase federal health tr...

Feb 13, 2020

The latest on protests across Canada in support of anti-pipeline demonstrators

Here is the latest news on protests across Canada over a natural-gas pipeline project in British Columbia: --- Demonstrators in Victoria are promising to shut down all provincial government offic...

Feb 13, 2020

Lionel Desmond not thought to pose imminent threat health official tells inquiry

GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - A psychotherapist who talked to Lionel Desmond a few hours before he killed his family and himself says she didn't think the former soldier posed an imminent threat to hi...

Feb 13, 2020

Budget watchdog slashes economic growth projections, blames temporary factors

OTTAWA - Canada's budget watchdog says economic growth during the final quarter of 2019 will be "significantly weaker" than predicted in its fall report. In its latest report on near-term growth, the ...

Feb 13, 2020

Supreme Court of Canada to hear appeals on solitary confinement

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will revisit the decisions of courts in British Columbia and Ontario that said the federal law allowing prolonged solitary confinement in prison was unco...

Feb 13, 2020