Canada

Quick Facts on Canada's climate plan, compared to other G20 members

OTTAWA - Some quick facts about Climate Transparency's 2019 report card on Canada's climate plan as part of its annual report card on G20 climate action. Canada's emissions picture within the G20: - C...

Nov 11, 2019

For new Tory MP Alex Ruff, this year's Remembrance Day brings changes

OTTAWA - Alex Ruff, a retired colonel with 25 years in the Armed Forces, has missed commemorating Remembrance Day in his hometown of Tara, Ont. just six times. He'd even scheduled leave from his last ...

Nov 11, 2019

Button-pushing Edmonton toddler wins his parents a free trip to Tokyo

EDMONTON - Lee Tappenden thought it was a scam when he got a call last week saying he had won a free trip to Tokyo. The caller was from Shaw, his cable company, ...

Nov 11, 2019

High volume of Cherry complaints has CBSC at limit of processing capacity

TORONTO - The Canadian Broadcasting Standards Council has been so overloaded with complaints about hockey commentator Don Cherry's rant over the weekend that it hit the limit of the org...

Nov 11, 2019

Conservatives' Scheer wants Trudeau to open Parliament Nov. 25

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is calling on the prime minister to open Parliament on Nov. 25. That's five days after Justin Trudeau is scheduled to swear in a new cabinet following last m...

Nov 11, 2019

Canada supports genocide case against Myanmar at International Criminal Court

OTTAWA - Canada is supporting a genocide prosecution against the Myanmar government for systemic violence that forced more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee their country. Gambia filed the genocid...

Nov 11, 2019

Canada among three G20 countries least likely to hit emissions targets

OTTAWA - A report card on global climate action says Canada's plan to meet its greenhouse-gas emissions targets is among the worst in the G20. Climate Transparency today is grading all the countr...

Nov 11, 2019

Quebec overturns decision to deny French woman immigration documents over her French

MONTREAL - The Quebec government has overturned a decision to deny a French woman her Quebec immigration documents because a chapter of her PhD thesis was written in English. The c...

Nov 11, 2019

Jury has questions as deliberations continue in Halifax jail cell death case

HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia jury will return to deliberations Sunday morning in the case of two special constables charged in the death of an impaired 41-year-old man who suffocat...

Nov 11, 2019

Canadians to mark Remembrance Day this morning

OTTAWA - Canadians will gather at cenotaphs and monuments across the country this morning to remember and honour those who took up arms - and in some cases paid the ultimate price - to defend this cou...

Nov 11, 2019