Canada

Cosmetics company Lush calls for end of Safe Third Country deal with U.S.

OTTAWA - Cosmetics company Lush has launched a campaign calling on Canadians to pressure Parliament to back out of an agreement with the U.S. governing refugee claims. It's part of the company's ...

Mar 07, 2020

'If we stand back and do nothing, we get the Trudeau tax:' Manitoba premier

WINNIPEG - Caught between a federal government demanding a rising carbon tax and some Progressive Conservative supporters opposed to any such levy, Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister offered a compromis...

Mar 07, 2020

Canada funds development of COVID-19 'lab-in-a-box'

OTTAWA - Canadian researchers are developing a "lab-in-a-box" that could make it cheaper and faster to diagnose cases of the novel coronavirus, particularly in remote areas of the world. The project r...

Mar 07, 2020

Three new coronavirus cases in Ontario, pushing provincewide total to 23

TORONTO - Officials in Ontario are reporting a new case of the novel coronavirus that they say is linked to a cruise ship that left San Francisco in early February. Peel Public Health says t...

Mar 07, 2020

Supreme Court will not hear Trans Mountain pipeline expansion appeal cases

OTTAWA - The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project has cleared another legal hurdle. The Supreme Court of Canada has decided not to hear five challenges from environment and Indigen...

Mar 07, 2020

235 Canadians on cruise ship held for COVID-19 testing off California coast

OTTAWA - There are 235 Canadians on the passenger manifest for a cruise ship that is being held off the coast of California for coronavirus testing. Global Affairs Canada says there are no confirmed c...

Mar 07, 2020

Starbucks, Second Cup halt use of reusable cups amid novel coronavirus outbreak

Two major coffee chains have stopped serving beverages in reusable cups brought by customers amid the novel coronavirus outbreak. Starbucks and The Second Cup Ltd. say they are temporarily halting the...

Mar 07, 2020

Federal lab confirms second case of new coronavirus in Quebec

MONTREAL - Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory has confirmed a second case of the new coronavirus in Quebec while the province's Health Department announced another presumptive case. A...

Mar 07, 2020

It's up to all Wet'suwet'en people to work through agreement: Bellegarde

VANCOUVER - Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde says it's up to all Wet'suwet'en people to work through the draft agreement struck on Sunday between their hereditary chiefs ...

Mar 06, 2020

NewsAlert: Toronto boy abducted over drug debt found safe, police say

Toronto police say a 14-year-old boy who was the subject of an Amber Alert has been found safe after he was allegedly abducted on his way to school. In a tweet Thursday night, police say the teen was ...

Mar 06, 2020