Canada

A blast of early winter cripples southern Manitoba; power out, highways closed

WINNIPEG - A first, early blast of windy, winter-like weather has knocked out power and made travel nearly impossible in many parts of southern Manitoba. Heavy, wet snow ...

Oct 11, 2019

Politicians in Yukon vote unanimously to declare climate emergency

WHITEHORSE - Members of Yukon's legislature have voted to declare a climate emergency. The vote adds Yukon to the growing list of nearly 500 federal, provincial and municipal governments, in...

Oct 11, 2019

Top court lets stand nine-year pornography sentence for daycare supervisor

OTTAWA - A nine-year prison sentence handed to a Toronto-area day-care supervisor who used toddlers for child pornography will stand. The Supreme Court of Canada says it won't hear the Crown's appeal ...

Oct 10, 2019

Climate change threatens crops, water for billions around globe: study

Canadian research is part of an extensive global climate change study that has found billions of the world's poorest people are at risk. The results, published Thursday in the journal Science, raise t...

Oct 10, 2019

Final arguments begin in case of Quebec man charged in slaying of wife, stranger

ST-JEROME, Que. - Final arguments have begun in the double murder trial of Ugo Fredette. The Quebec man is on trial for first-degree murder in the deaths of his ex-wife Veronique Barbe and Yvon L...

Oct 10, 2019

Singh lays out conditions for NDP support in Parliament after Oct. 21 vote

OTTAWA - Just hours before the last televised debate of the federal election campaign, Jagmeet Singh is setting the Thanksgiving table for Canadians - and he's trying to make his New Democra...

Oct 10, 2019

Quebec will appeal court ruling that allowed cannabis plants to be grown at home

QUEBEC - The Quebec government says it will appeal a decision invalidating parts of Quebec's cannabis law that prohibited home cultivation. On Sept. 3, Quebec Superior Court Justice Manon Lavoie ruled...

Oct 10, 2019

Syrian restaurant to reopen in Toronto days after closing over threats

TORONTO - A Syrian restaurant in downtown Toronto that closed after its owners said they received hate messages and death threats will reopen tomorrow. The Alsoufi family, which owns the popular resta...

Oct 10, 2019

Ex-ski coach Bertrand Charest won't appeal his case further, will serve sentence

MONTREAL - Disgraced former national ski coach Bertrand Charest has decided he won't appeal his verdict and sentence before the Supreme Court of Canada. Charest's lawyer says he's decided to close the...

Oct 10, 2019

Lawsuit settled in fatal wheelchair accident at New Brunswick train crossing

MONCTON, N.B. - Three years after a Moncton man in an electric wheelchair was struck and killed by a freight train at a level crossing in the city, a lawsuit stemming from his death has been reso...

Oct 10, 2019