Canada

Trudeau's plane damaged, now backup plane grounded in London, U.K.

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's bad luck with planes continues. He was forced to use a back-up aircraft Monday to ferry him to London for a NATO summit because the usual prime minis...

Dec 04, 2019

Quebec chief justice postpones speech to Jewish law society over Bill 21 concerns

MONTREAL - Quebec's chief justice, who is hearing a case seeking a suspension of the province's secularism law, will no longer be speaking to an association of Jewish lawyers in Montreal followin...

Dec 04, 2019

Grant extends reach of low cost 3D-printed hands, back braces to Canadian kids

VICTORIA - Nick Dechev says amputees randomly show up at his laboratory at the University of Victoria and ask for help. Dechev, a mechanical engineering professor and executive director of the Victori...

Dec 04, 2019

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

HALIFAX - An eight-year-old Nova Scotia girl who helped rescue her family from a van that plunged into a river has received a bravery award from the premier. Sophia Grace LeBlanc of Amh...

Dec 04, 2019

Huawei's Meng 'no longer fears unknown' despite 'torment, struggle' of last year

VANCOUVER - Huawei Technologies executive Meng Wanzhou says she has experienced feelings of helplessness, torment and struggle since being arrested in Canada one year ago, but no longer fear...

Dec 04, 2019

Trudeau to mark NATO's birthday amid questions about military alliance's future

LONDON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will seek to deflect questions about Canadian defence spending when he meets with fellow NATO leaders starting Tuesday by pointing to Canada's numerous other con...

Dec 04, 2019

Premiers ask for more health funding, express hesitation on pharmacare

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - Canada's provincial and territorial leaders agreed Monday to press the federal government for higher increases to health-care funding, but most expressed hesitation about a na...

Dec 04, 2019

CAQ crushes Liberals in Quebec City byelection, reinforcing party's dominance

QUEBEC - The Coalition Avenir Quebec easily won the Quebec City byelection in Jean-Talon Monday night, taking a riding whose electorate had steadily voted Liberal since 1966. Former political sta...

Dec 04, 2019

Toronto affordable housing agency no longer allows window a/c units

Toronto's affordable housing agency says it will no longer allow tenants to install window air conditioners, nearly a month after a toddler was struck and killed by a falling unit. The Toronto Co...

Dec 04, 2019

Poem gives fresh voice to African-Canadian pioneer of song and stage, Portia White

HALIFAX - As a boy, George Elliott Clarke browsed a family album and marvelled at the "shimmering career" of his great aunt Portia White, an African-Canadian woman who became an acclaimed classical si...

Dec 04, 2019