Canada

Canadian experts returning home after probing Tehran plane crash, TSB says

OTTAWA - The Transportation Safety Board said Thursday Canadian investigators will be on hand "wherever and whenever" Iran finally downloads the information contained on the black boxes ...

Jan 25, 2020

Quebec to consult on expanding medical aid in dying to mentally ill

MONTREAL - The Quebec government will hold at least one day of public consultations on the possibility of expanding access to medical aid in dying to people suffering from severe mental illness, Healt...

Jan 25, 2020

Transportation board approves Uber, Lyft ride-hail services in Lower Mainland

VICTORIA - Vancouver is poised to join most major cities in Canada in offering ride-hailing services with the long-awaited approval Thursday of licences for companies Uber and Lyft to operat...

Jan 25, 2020

'My heart is going to bleed,' says man who lost daughter, granddaughter in plane crash

TORONTO - Habib Haghjoo's girls are returning home. The bodies of Sahar Haghjoo, 37, and her eight-year-old daughter, Elsa Jadidi, will land in Toronto on Saturday, Haghjoo said of his daugh...

Jan 25, 2020

Personal spending a party matter, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says how he used party funds to pay personal expenses is an internal matter and he won't provide any details. Revelations that Scheer was ...

Jan 25, 2020

NDP to put forward private member's bill on making national pharmacare a reality

OTTAWA - The New Democrats are planning to bring forward legislation to implement a national, universal pharmacare program. NDP House Leader Peter Julian is set to table a private member's bill a...

Jan 25, 2020

Sides in Regina refinery labour dispute lay down conditions for talks to resume

REGINA - The owner of a Saskatchewan oil refinery where workers are locked out in a contract dispute says there has been a discussion with Unifor about returning to bargaining, but the ...

Jan 25, 2020

Second day of search yields no sign of French snowmobilers missing in Quebec

ST-HENRI-DE-TAILLON, Que. - It was an exuberant group of French travellers who set off from Christine Reis' inn north of La Tuque, Que., on Tuesday morning, eager for the second day of ...

Jan 25, 2020

Feds roll out education, call for self-reporting to prevent coronavirus outbreak

OTTAWA - The Canadian government is rolling out information rather than surgical masks and thermal scanners to try to keep the country safe from a virus that has already killed more than two...

Jan 25, 2020

Facing minority Parliament, Trudeau tells MPs to respect opposition

OTTAWA - Play nice. That was Justin Trudeau's advice Thursday to Liberal MPs as they gathered to plot strategy for Monday's resumption of Parliament for its first extended sitting ...

Jan 25, 2020