Canada

Northern Indigenous leaders meet with banks over investment in Arctic energy

TORONTO - Yukon First Nation leaders are meeting with bankers in Toronto today to try to persuade them not to invest in energy development on the range of a vital caribou herd. The United States ...

Dec 17, 2019

Jury finds former SNC-Lavalin executive Sami Bebawi guilty on all charges

MONTREAL - A former SNC-Lavalin executive was found guilty on Sunday of paying off foreign officials and pocketing millions as he worked to secure contracts for the Canadian engineering company i...

Dec 17, 2019

Sales of electric vehicles plummet in Ontario after rebate cancellation

TORONTO - Sales of electric vehicles in Ontario have plummeted since the Progressive Conservative government cancelled a rebate last year, hampering progress toward a national target. In the firs...

Dec 17, 2019

Climate change chosen as Canadian Press News Story of the Year for 2019

OTTAWA - Climate change has been chosen as the 2019 Canadian Press News Story of the Year. The story was chosen by reporters and editors across the country in a year that saw warnings about ...

Dec 17, 2019

Privacy czar finds gaps in federal party policies on personal information

OTTAWA - The privacy policies of all the major federal political parties failed to ensure people gave valid consent to the collection and use of their personal infor...

Dec 17, 2019

Nova Scotia communities await decision on contentious pulp mill pipeline proposal

HALIFAX - For pipefitter Ben Chisholm, an imminent decision on the future of a Nova Scotia pulp mill could keep tradespeople he represents employed for years - or it could create&n...

Dec 17, 2019

Green economy think tank gives thumbs up to tree planting promise

OTTAWA - An Ottawa-based green economy think tank says the federal government's promise to plant two billion trees over the next 10 years is a cheap way to pull greenhouse gases out of the a...

Dec 17, 2019

Financial support and Conservative leadership race; In The News for Dec. 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 Dec. 17. What we are watching in Canada ... Th...

Dec 17, 2019

Finance ministers push Morneau for stabilization, health-care money

OTTAWA - The country's finance ministers are meeting in Ottawa today, with more federal help for resource-dependent provinces such as Alberta on the agenda. All provinces say a federal program that cu...

Dec 17, 2019

Nova Scotia to rule on mill's plan to pump effluent into Northumberland Strait

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's environment minister is expected to release his decision today on a pulp mill's controversial proposal to pump 85 million litres of treated effluent daily into the Northumberla...

Dec 17, 2019