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Leaders meet on plane crash and John Crosbie's funeral; In The News for Jan. 16

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. 16 ... What we are watchin...

Jan 18, 2020

Iran must compensate crash victims' families, Canada-led group agrees

LONDON - Canada and its allies sent a stern message to Iran on Thursday: get ready to pay the families of those who died on board the Ukrainian airliner it shot down, and don't try to block ...

Jan 18, 2020

John Crosbie remembered as patriot, 'indomitable' force at state funeral

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Generations of Canadian politicians filed into an Anglican cathedral in snowy downtown St. John's Thursday to honour a man described as a one-of-a-kind political figure wh...

Jan 18, 2020

Once proposed as ski resort: B.C.'s Jumbo Glacier turned over to First Nation

A spectacular swath of mountains, glaciers and forests once proposed for a ski resort is being turned over to the First Nations people who have lived there for centuries. After decades of controv...

Jan 18, 2020

Calls for dialogue as pipeline polarizes some in northern British Columbia

HOUSTON, B.C. - A natural gas pipeline project has polarized many communities across northern British Columbia in a dispute a Wet'suwet'en elder says he hopes will be res...

Jan 18, 2020

Inuit women in Canada's North encountering 'racialized policing,' report says

OTTAWA - A national organization representing Inuit women in Canada is calling for a radical shift in the way police work is done in the North. The demand comes after a new report relea...

Jan 17, 2020

Canada will respect an Iraqi government order to leave: Sajjan

OTTAWA - Canada will respect any decision by the Iraqi government to expel foreign troops from the country, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan said Friday, even as reports suggested the United States was ...

Jan 17, 2020

Resident hummingbirds suffer in British Columbia's frigid weather

BURNABY, B.C. - Harsh winter weather on British Columbia's south coast has frozen out the area's resident hummingbirds. The Wildlife Rescue Association says it has responded to more than 75 ...

Jan 17, 2020

Saskatoon man guilty of setting up fake fundraiser after Humboldt Broncos crash

SASKATOON - A Saskatoon man has been convicted of setting up a fake GoFundMe account for the Humboldt Broncos after the junior hockey team's bus crashed. A provincial court judge found Andrij Ole...

Jan 17, 2020

U.S. sanction law not enough to prove Canadian fraud: Meng's lawyers

VANCOUVER - Lawyers for a Huawei executive wanted on fraud charges in the United States are accusing Crown attorneys of relying on American sanction law to make its case for extradition from Cana...

Jan 17, 2020