Canada

Wilkinson says carbon price hikes won't be decided until 2022

GATINEAU, Que. - The federal Liberals will not make a decision about hiking the carbon price beyond $50 a tonne for at least another two years, Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says. Wilkinson&...

Dec 06, 2019

Feds vow to ban guns similar to one used in Ecole Polytechnique shooting

OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says the federal government will be ready soon to produce a list of semi-automatic weapons that will be banned in Canada. His comments come the same day...

Dec 06, 2019

Ottawa's plan on missing and murdered Indigenous women due by June: Bennett

OTTAWA - The Liberal government will release its national action plan to respond to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by June 2020, say...

Dec 06, 2019

Kenney to meet Trudeau next week, discuss pipelines and equalization

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney will meet Tuesday with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa to discuss issues ranging from pipelines to equalization. Kenney says he and eight of h...

Dec 06, 2019

Scheer warns Liberals his Tories are watching as Parliament prepares to return

OTTAWA - Opposition Conservatives are looking ahead to the return of Parliament Thursday as an opportunity to change the channel after weeks of very public party in-fighting around the future of leade...

Dec 06, 2019

Crown wants murder verdict in death of toddler found outside Edmonton church

EDMONTON - A Crown prosecutor says a man should be found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of his 19-month-old son. The toddler's lifeless body was found outside an Edmonton church in 2...

Dec 06, 2019

Scheer champions energy workers, vows to never support carbon tax

OTTAWA - Andrew Scheer is doubling down on his insistence that the federal Conservative party will never support a carbon tax. The Conservative leader is proposing an amendment to the Liberals' t...

Dec 06, 2019

Group narrows search for beluga retirement site to two sites off Nova Scotia

HALIFAX - A conservation group has selected two sites in Nova Scotia where it could establish a kind of ocean retirement home for beluga whales raised in captivity. After...

Dec 06, 2019

Liberals to emphasize common ground in throne speech as Parliament resumes

OTTAWA - The 43rd session of Parliament - and a new era of minority government - is to open Thursday with a speech from the throne emphasizing the issues on which Justin Trudeau's Liber...

Dec 06, 2019

Ontario not on track to achieve 2030 emissions reductions targets: auditor

TORONTO - Ontario is unlikely to meet its 2030 emissions target under its current climate change plan - and Premier Doug Ford's government knows it, the province's auditor gen...

Dec 06, 2019