Canada

Talks with Wet'suwet'en over pipeline 'not successful,' province says

SMITHERS, B.C. - Talks that were intended to de-escalate a dispute over a natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia have failed after just two days. Hereditary chiefs of the Wet'suwe...

Feb 07, 2020

Quebec premier says returns will fly high with $30-million airship investment

MONTREAL - Quebec Premier Francois Legault is dismissing naysayers who are accusing his government of wasting $30 million on a company that wants to build giant airships ...

Feb 07, 2020

Fire keeping investigators away from train derailment in rural Saskatchewan

GUERNSEY, Sask. - The Transportation Safety Board says a fire continues to burn at the site of a train derailment in Saskatchewan and investigators can't access the site. It says one investigator...

Feb 07, 2020

Feds to fund urgent research into new coronavirus, including social impacts

OTTAWA - The Canadian Institutes of Health Research is set to release some urgent funding to study the novel coronavirus - including the fear it causes. The federal granting agency says it wants ...

Feb 07, 2020

Montreal to fully ban plastic bags by end of 2020, mayor announces

MONTREAL - Given the urgent need to reduce the city's environmental footprint, Montreal will move to fully ban the distribution of plastic bags by the end of 2020, Mayor Valerie Plante ...

Feb 07, 2020

Canadians urged to leave China now as first evacuation attempt hits snag

OTTAWA - Canadians are being encouraged to leave China while they still can as the federal government and counterparts around the world struggle to evacuate citizens from the centre of the n...

Feb 07, 2020

Send black boxes from Iran plane crash to France, Champagne demands

OTTAWA - Canada has asked for international help to pressure Iran to give up the black boxes recovered from the wreckage of Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752, says Foreign Minister...

Feb 07, 2020

PM Trudeau lands in Ethiopia, where he will head to the African Union

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Justin Trudeau has landed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he will be the first Canadian prime minister to take part in a session of the African Union. The eight-day trip, which...

Feb 07, 2020

'My freedom and my life were stolen from me,' says Diab, suing over extradition

Ottawa sociology professor Hassan Diab says his decade-long fight against accusations of terrorism has left him with chronic stress, depression and insomnia. Diab, his wife and two...

Feb 07, 2020

NewsAlert: Trans Mountain cost jumps to $12.6 billion

The estimated cost to build the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion has jumped by 70 per cent, to $12.6 billion from $7.4 billion. More to come... The Canadian Press

Feb 07, 2020