Canada

End of Quebec course on religion and ethics seen as win for nationalists

MONTREAL - Since 2008, elementary and high school students in Quebec have taken a mandatory course aimed at cultivating respect and tolerance for people of different cultures ...

Mar 08, 2020

RCMP helping Ukrainian investigation into Iran's downing of Flight PS752

OTTAWA - The RCMP is helping Ukrainian authorities in a criminal investigation of the downing of Flight PS752, Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says. The Ukraine International Airl...

Mar 08, 2020

Coal miner Teck baffled by fish collapse downstream of British Columbia mines

Teck Resources says it's baffled over the virtual disappearance of a rare fish from a lengthy stretch of a long-contaminated river downstream from the company's coal-mining operations in southeastern&...

Mar 08, 2020

Online threats, racism causing fear for Indigenous women: MMIWG commissioner

Michele Audette feels disappointed when she looks online and sees a barrage of violent threats towards Indigenous women. "It made me so mad that we tolerate this. There's no real ... reprimand," ...

Mar 08, 2020

Canada added 30,300 jobs in February, unemployment rate 5.6 per cent

OTTAWA - The unemployment rate in Canada nudged up a tenth of a percentage point to 5.6 per cent as the economy added 30,300 net new jobs in February, Statistics Canada said Friday, beating expectatio...

Mar 08, 2020

Morneau says Ottawa will announce support for those quarantined due to COVID-19

The federal government will provide financial help for quarantined Canadians over novel coronavirus concerns, and pad its budget contingency should the economic hit be prolonged and deep, Finance Mini...

Mar 08, 2020

Canada's top doctor says country ready with co-ordinated response to COVID-19

OTTAWA - A Canadian patient newly diagnosed with COVID-19 recently travelled to Las Vegas and used public transit in Toronto for several days before he was tested for the virus, says the Tor...

Mar 08, 2020

Accused spy fights to overturn immigration ruling, saying she helped Canada

OTTAWA - A woman accused of spying for Russia says there's nothing to the allegations because her actions ended up helping - not harming - Canadian interests. Elena Crenna is asking the Fede...

Mar 08, 2020

Child care, education, housing at heart of affordability fears, Morneau told

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Bill Morneau was told weeks into the Liberals' second mandate that Canadians are most worried about affordability in areas where governments have a lot of power over prices -...

Mar 08, 2020

Alberta woman home after cruise first presumptive case of new coronavirus

EDMONTON - Alberta's first presumptive case of the novel coronavirus involves a woman from the southern part of the province who was on a cruise ship that is being held for testing...

Mar 07, 2020