Canada

Recent string of Quebec domestic homicides spur call for action to protect women

MONTREAL - Francis Lalonde Langlois's favourite memory of his mother is when he was five years old and she blew up 2,000 balloons on New Year's Eve because she wanted her three children to r...

Jan 19, 2020

Industry applauds TMX ruling and Trump called a clown; In The News for Jan. 17

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 Jan. 17 ... What we are watchin...

Jan 19, 2020

Plane crash leaves friends in Canada wondering what to do with belongings

It was only a few years ago that Shaho Shahbazpanahi remembers moving his friend Razgar Rahimi and his young family into their home. He's now trying to figure out ...

Jan 19, 2020

Ottawa to avoid selling Trans Mountain pipeline so long as risks remain

OTTAWA - The federal government is studying the best options for Indigenous communities to reap economic benefits from the Trans Mountain pipeline but Ottawa is not planning to sell the proj...

Jan 19, 2020

B.C. forest industry grasps for hope amid seven-month strike, shutdowns, changes

VICTORIA - The crisis facing British Columbia's forest industry is intensifying as markets decline, mills shut and a strike involving 3,000 forestry workers enters its seventh month. Th...

Jan 19, 2020

Family of Indigenous woman critical of Winnipeg police probe into her death

WINNIPEG - The family of an Indigenous woman found unclothed and injured in a train yard is criticizing how Winnipeg police investigated her death. Police said Jaeda Vanderwal, 22, died from blun...

Jan 18, 2020

Supreme Court dismisses B.C.'s appeal in Trans Mountain pipeline case

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has shut down British Columbia's attempt to regulate what can flow through an expanded Trans Mountain pipeline from Alberta. The B.C. governmen...

Jan 18, 2020

Disrespectful that Horgan won't meet during northern B.C. tour: hereditary chief

HOUSTON, B.C. - One of five hereditary chiefs of the Wet'suwet'en Nation who oppose a natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia says it's disrespectful that Premier John Horgan isn't plan...

Jan 18, 2020

Federal health minister says too early for broad drug decriminalization

VANCOUVER - Canada's health minister says talk about decriminalizing drugs to deal with the country's opioids crisis is premature until people have enough help to fight t...

Jan 18, 2020

Parks Canada sets new rules for climbing Canada's highest peak

Parks Canada has brought in new rules for climbers on the country's highest peak after having to rescue eight people in seven years. The rules, which are posted on the agency's website, include a...

Jan 18, 2020