Canada

Father of Indigenous hockey player rejects report on racist taunts

WAYCOBAH, N.S. - An investigation into allegations that an Indigenous hockey player faced racist taunts during a recent game in Cape Breton has determined the verbal...

Feb 07, 2020

Airbnb limits young people's ability to rent properties following deadly shooting

TORONTO - Airbnb will limit young adults' ability to book some properties in Canada in a pilot project aimed at cutting down on unauthorized parties like the one where three young men were killed in T...

Feb 07, 2020

Talks with Wet'suwet'en over pipeline 'not successful,' province says

SMITHERS, B.C. - Talks that were intended to de-escalate a dispute over a natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia have failed after just two days. Hereditary chiefs of the Wet'suwe...

Feb 07, 2020

Quebec premier says returns will fly high with $30-million airship investment

MONTREAL - Quebec Premier Francois Legault is dismissing naysayers who are accusing his government of wasting $30 million on a company that wants to build giant airships ...

Feb 07, 2020

Fire keeping investigators away from train derailment in rural Saskatchewan

GUERNSEY, Sask. - The Transportation Safety Board says a fire continues to burn at the site of a train derailment in Saskatchewan and investigators can't access the site. It says one investigator...

Feb 07, 2020

Feds to fund urgent research into new coronavirus, including social impacts

OTTAWA - The Canadian Institutes of Health Research is set to release some urgent funding to study the novel coronavirus - including the fear it causes. The federal granting agency says it wants ...

Feb 07, 2020

Montreal to fully ban plastic bags by end of 2020, mayor announces

MONTREAL - Given the urgent need to reduce the city's environmental footprint, Montreal will move to fully ban the distribution of plastic bags by the end of 2020, Mayor Valerie Plante ...

Feb 07, 2020

Canadians urged to leave China now as first evacuation attempt hits snag

OTTAWA - Canadians are being encouraged to leave China while they still can as the federal government and counterparts around the world struggle to evacuate citizens from the centre of the n...

Feb 07, 2020

Send black boxes from Iran plane crash to France, Champagne demands

OTTAWA - Canada has asked for international help to pressure Iran to give up the black boxes recovered from the wreckage of Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752, says Foreign Minister...

Feb 07, 2020

PM Trudeau lands in Ethiopia, where he will head to the African Union

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Justin Trudeau has landed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he will be the first Canadian prime minister to take part in a session of the African Union. The eight-day trip, which...

Feb 07, 2020