Canada

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

N.S. girl earns bravery award for saving family from van that plunged into river

HALIFAX - Six-year-old Sophia Grace LeBlanc and two siblings were in a van driven by their mother in November 2018 when the vehicle left the highway near Little River, N.S., and plunged into a river, ...

Dec 06, 2019

Feds approve Alberta's carbon tax on big industrial emitters

OTTAWA - The federal government is giving the Alberta government a passing grade for its industrial carbon tax.Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says today his department agrees Alberta's planne...

Dec 06, 2019

Ties between Trudeau, Trump tested at close of NATO summit

WATFORD, United Kingdom - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau escaped an international summit with his relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump apparently intact despite ill-timed commen...

Dec 06, 2019

Justin Timberlake, Jeremy Rupke and baseball trivia In-The-News for Dec. 6

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. 6. What we are watching in...

Dec 06, 2019

Supreme Court to rule today on cleanup of contaminated Grassy Narrows site

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada is expected to bring clarity today to the question of who should pay for cleaning up a mercury-contaminated site near Ontario's Grassy Nar...

Dec 06, 2019

Events planned to mark sombre 30th anniversary of Polytechnique massacre

MONTREAL - Several events are planned across the country today to mark the grim 30th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre. On the evening of Dec. 6, 1989, a gunman entered Montreal's Ecole polytechniq...

Dec 06, 2019

'The system is broken:' Many can't afford lawyers, don't qualify for legal aid

CALGARY - Legal experts say the justice system is failing Canada's working poor, many of whom are unable to afford lawyers and end up pleading guilty or representing themselves in court. In ...

Dec 06, 2019

Decision expected in appeal of convicted Calgary triple-murderer Douglas Garland

CALGARY - Alberta's top court is to release its decision today on the appeal filed by a man found guilty of killing a Calgary couple and their grandson. Douglas Garland was convicted in 2017 of f...

Dec 06, 2019

Consensus comes 30 years later that Montreal massacre was an anti-feminist act

MONTREAL - Thirty years after the worst mass shooting in Canadian history, official acknowledgment has come that what happened on Dec. 6, 1989 at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique was an attack on f...

Dec 05, 2019