Canada

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

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

Jan 16, 2020

Cdn military program seeking help to find and take out waste in space

OTTAWA - The Canadian military is looking for help taking out the trash in space. Over the last two years, the military's Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security program has awarded nearly $5 m...

Jan 16, 2020

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

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

Jan 16, 2020

Family of Indigenous woman critical of police investigation into her death

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

Jan 16, 2020

Would-be Conservative leadership contenders grilled on their pasts

OTTAWA - Outgoing Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer's past became a problem during the 2019 federal election, and those vying to replace him will be grilled about theirs. A copy of the 2020 leade...

Jan 16, 2020

Jewish group seeks removal of anti-Semite's name from Quebec street, park

MONTREAL - A man who sought to prevent Jewish people from ever buying his land should lose the honour of having a street and park named after him, a Jewish advocacy group said Tuesday in a public...

Jan 16, 2020

British couple to attempt record-breaking transatlantic balloon flight from N.B.

FREDERICTON - A British couple is hoping to break through a glass ceiling with a balloon flight from Canada to Europe this summer. If the trip is successful, Deborah Day would become the first woman i...

Jan 16, 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 ongoing opioids crisis is premature until people have enough help to...

Jan 16, 2020

Experts see holes in international flight security rules, oversight

MONTREAL - Questions about how and when planes are permitted to fly have been raised in the aftermath of the deadly crash of a Ukrainian airliner near Tehran last week that killed all 176 people&...

Jan 16, 2020

Federal government to spend hundred of millions more to keep CF-18s fighting fit

OTTAWA - The federal government is planning to invest hundreds of millions of dollars more to ensure Canada's aging CF-18s can still fight while the country waits for replacement jets, which were...

Jan 16, 2020