Canada

Quebec to expand deposit system to cover all drink containers by 2022

MONTREAL - Quebec will expand its deposit system to include different kinds of alcohol and beverage containers in an effort to recycle more products and reduce the amount of waste going ...

Feb 01, 2020

Debate to enact new continental trade pact kicks off in House of Commons

OTTAWA - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, who presided over the talks that led to a new North American free trade deal, urged the opposition parties to get on with enshrining the rev...

Feb 01, 2020

Worried Ontario father wants young daughter out of virus zone

An Ontario father says he missed his 15-month-old daughter's first steps because she is stuck in the Chinese city at the centre of a new coronavirus outbreak. Richard Fabic is hoping to get ...

Feb 01, 2020

Federal IT systems at risk of 'critical failure,' Trudeau warned in memo

OTTAWA - Newly released briefing notes for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau describe the dire state of federal computer systems, which deliver billions in benefits and are on the precipice...

Feb 01, 2020

No need to change Canada's plans after WHO declares global emergency: officials

Canada is already taking the right steps to control the spread of the novel coronavirus, so there is no need to change things now that the World Health Organization has declared a global emergenc...

Feb 01, 2020

Indigenous community votes down proposed nuclear waste bunker near Lake Huron

TORONTO - An Ontario Indigenous community has overwhelmingly rejected a proposed nuclear-waste bunker in their area. Members of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation voted 85 per cent against the deep geologic r...

Feb 01, 2020

Plastic ban coming in 2021 after report concludes there is evidence of harm

OTTAWA - A national ban on many single-use plastics is on track for next year after a government report concluded Thursday that there is more than enough evidence proving plastic pollution is har...

Feb 01, 2020

Manitoba First Nation loses court bid for continued flood evacuation benefits

WINNIPEG - A Manitoba First Nation has lost its bid to have Ottawa continue paying evacuation benefits to people forced from their homes by flooding in 2011. Lake St. Martin First Nation was seeking a...

Jan 31, 2020

Catholic bishops urge Trudeau to scrap changes to assisted dying legislation

OTTAWA - The president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to voice "very serious concern" about proposed changes to medical assistance in dying...

Jan 31, 2020

Senate committee urges renewed suspension for Ontario Sen. Lynn Beyak

OTTAWA - The Senate ethics committee is recommending that Sen. Lynn Beyak be suspended again without pay. Beyak's colleagues ousted her from the upper chamber temporarily last spring after c...

Jan 31, 2020