Canada

Old-age benefits have dramatic effect on poverty for immigrants, study says

OTTAWA - A new study says recent immigrants who are seniors when they arrive in this country are far less likely to live in poverty if they have access to federal old-age benefits. To qualify for...

Dec 03, 2019

National focus needed on suicide crisis among Indigenous youth: AFN

OTTAWA - The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations is calling on the federal government to make up a national suicide-prevention strategy for young people, with a suicide crisis grippin...

Dec 03, 2019

Alberta loses beer battle in Appeal Court, but won't have to repay brewers

EDMONTON - Alberta's top court is dismissing the province's appeal of a ruling that disallowed a program intended to promote sales of local craft beers. But the Court of Appeal tossed out an earlier j...

Dec 03, 2019

Enchaced camera surveillance, stiffer panhandling fines floated in safety report

WINNIPEG - A report from the Manitoba Police Commission says the province should consider enhanced security cameras, a crackdown on panhandlers and other measures to improve safety in downto...

Dec 03, 2019

Tory deputy leader apologizes for comparing Pride, St. Patrick's Day parades

Andrew Scheer's second-in-command apologized Saturday after comparing the Conservative leader's decision not to march in a Pride parade to choosing not to take part in a St. Patrick's Day parade. Leon...

Dec 02, 2019

Complaint says Quebec chief justice biased in Bill 21 case, should step aside

MONTREAL - Quebec's top judge is facing an accusation of bias and a call to withdraw from a case she is hearing challenging the province's secularism law, known as Bill 21. A junior college ...

Dec 02, 2019

Search for anti-nuke Greta unfolds amid calls for Canada to push NATO on bombs

OTTAWA - Ask Hugo Slim about teenaged climate change activist Greta Thunberg, and one thought comes to mind: if only there were a young person like her who was that worried about nuclear weapons. Slim...

Dec 02, 2019

Alberta university students want lecturer who denies Ukrainian famine fired

EDMONTON - Some University of Alberta students want the school to fire an assistant lecturer who denies the Holodomor, the mass genocide of Ukrainian people carried out by the former So...

Dec 02, 2019

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

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is off to London where he will spend the next few days trying to give the NATO military alliance a boost amid existential questions about its future - while defe...

Dec 02, 2019

Only Liberal riding east of Montreal up for grabs in Quebec City byelection

QUEBEC - Voters head to the polls today in a Quebec City riding that could be in play after being a Liberal stronghold for more than 50 years. A provincial byelection was triggered in the Je...

Dec 02, 2019