Category Archives: Canada

Cdn troops won't return to Iraq without Iraq's explicit approval, Champagne says
ALI AL-SALEM AIR BASE, Kuwait - Canada's troops are eager to get back to work training Iraqi security forces but it won't happen unless Canada is certain of their safety and Iraq invites them to retur...
Feb 12, 2020

Canada to host Lima Group ministers meeting on Venezuela crisis next week
OTTAWA - Canada will host a meeting of its Lima Group partners next week in an attempt to build new momentum in their effort to bring democracy to Venezuela. The gathering of foreign ministe...
Feb 12, 2020

Longtime newspaper columnist Christie Blatchford dead at 68
TORONTO - Longtime newspaper columnist, author and firebrand Christie Blatchford, a hardnosed scribe known for deep-sourced scoops and biting opinion pieces, has died. She was 68. Blatc...
Feb 12, 2020

Freight and passenger railways under stress as anti-pipeline blockades continue
The RCMP has formally ended its enforcement operations in a region of northern B.C. that's at the centre of a pipeline dispute as protests across the country continue to cause disruptio...
Feb 12, 2020

Medical aid in dying not driven by lack of access to palliative care: new study
MONTREAL - Medical aid in dying is not being driven by factors such as poverty, isolation, or lack of access to proper palliative care, according to a new study by Canadian researchers....
Feb 12, 2020

Trudeau says it is time world admits there is too much systemic violence
GOREE ISLAND, Senegal - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the world needs to do more to prevent repeating the horrors of history. Trudeau is visiting Goree Island in Senegal this morning. The island ...
Feb 12, 2020

Second Canadian plane bringing Wuhan evacuees home: foreign minister
A second Canadian plane has left the quarantined region of Hubei, China, bearing more Canadians who have asked to return from the centre of the novel coronavirus outbreak, the federal govern...
Feb 12, 2020

A new shipboard Cdn coronavirus case and pipeline protests; In The News for Feb. 10
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Feb. 10. What we are watching in Canada ... Pr...
Feb 12, 2020

Backlog of applications for veterans' benefits grows by the thousands
OTTAWA - More Canadian veterans than ever are waiting to find out whether they qualify for disability benefits, despite repeated government promises and efforts to get the situation under control. New...
Feb 12, 2020

A note on a dropped piano and a curtain call; In The News for Feb. 12
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Feb. 12 ... What...
Feb 12, 2020