Canada

NewsAlert: Former N.S. police chief guilty of sex charge

BRIDGEWATER, N.S. - The former chief of police in a southwestern Nova Scotia town has been found guilty of sexually exploiting a 17-year-old girl. John Collyer was the police chief in Bridge...

Oct 24, 2019

Scheer says Canada more divided than ever, as NDP, Bloc hold cards close

REGINA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer offered the Liberals no help Tuesday to try and piece together national unity after an election contest that's left the country divided on regional lines. Sc...

Oct 24, 2019

UCP government to table first budget, warns of program spending cuts

EDMONTON - The Alberta government is to table a budget today that will cut program spending by nearly three per cent. The budget is the first under Premier Jason Kenney's United Conservative governmen...

Oct 24, 2019

Liberals: TMX pipeline could fund $500 million a year in clean energy projects

OTTAWA - The Liberal government expects to get $500 million a year out of the expanded Trans Mountain pipeline and is promising to spend it all on cleaner sources of energy and projects that...

Oct 24, 2019

The family tree for the tree of life and feral cats; In-The-News for Oct. 24

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 Oct. 24. What we are watching i...

Oct 24, 2019

The Latest: Election night in Canada

OTTAWA - The latest developments on federal election night, Oct. 21, 2019. All times are Eastern Time: 1:45 a.m. Green Leader Elizabeth May says her party will go to Parliament to ensure the Liberal m...

Oct 23, 2019

Independent Sen. Andre Pratte announces resignation on election night

OTTAWA - Andre Pratte announced his resignation from the Senate on Monday night, just as the federal election results were rolling in. The Independent senator from Quebec posted his resignation letter...

Oct 23, 2019

B.C. Indigenous rights law aims to make First Nations full participants

VICTORIA - British Columbia is set to become the first province to introduce human rights legislation to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which would manda...

Oct 23, 2019

Liberals return with minority government in Election 2019

OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau has emerged from a bruising 40-day election campaign with his image tarnished and his grip on power weakened, needing the support of at least one party to mainta...

Oct 23, 2019

Alberta education minister releases new guidelines for school seclusion rooms

EDMONTON - Alberta's education minister says seclusion rooms in schools will not be banned, but only used as a last resort when a student poses significant and imminent danger to themselves or others....

Oct 23, 2019