Canada

Scheer champions energy workers, vows to never support carbon tax

OTTAWA - Andrew Scheer is doubling down on his insistence that the federal Conservative party will never support a carbon tax. The Conservative leader is proposing an amendment to the Liberals' t...

Dec 06, 2019

Group narrows search for beluga retirement site to two sites off Nova Scotia

HALIFAX - A conservation group has selected two sites in Nova Scotia where it could establish a kind of ocean retirement home for beluga whales raised in captivity. After...

Dec 06, 2019

Liberals to emphasize common ground in throne speech as Parliament resumes

OTTAWA - The 43rd session of Parliament - and a new era of minority government - is to open Thursday with a speech from the throne emphasizing the issues on which Justin Trudeau's Liber...

Dec 06, 2019

Ontario not on track to achieve 2030 emissions reductions targets: auditor

TORONTO - Ontario is unlikely to meet its 2030 emissions target under its current climate change plan - and Premier Doug Ford's government knows it, the province's auditor gen...

Dec 06, 2019

N.S. girl earns bravery award for saving family from van that plunged into river

HALIFAX - Six-year-old Sophia Grace LeBlanc and two siblings were in a van driven by their mother in November 2018 when the vehicle left the highway near Little River, N.S., and plunged into a river, ...

Dec 06, 2019

Feds approve Alberta's carbon tax on big industrial emitters

OTTAWA - The federal government is giving the Alberta government a passing grade for its industrial carbon tax.Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says today his department agrees Alberta's planne...

Dec 06, 2019

Ties between Trudeau, Trump tested at close of NATO summit

WATFORD, United Kingdom - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau escaped an international summit with his relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump apparently intact despite ill-timed commen...

Dec 06, 2019

Justin Timberlake, Jeremy Rupke and baseball trivia In-The-News for Dec. 6

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 Dec. 6. What we are watching in...

Dec 06, 2019

Supreme Court to rule today on cleanup of contaminated Grassy Narrows site

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada is expected to bring clarity today to the question of who should pay for cleaning up a mercury-contaminated site near Ontario's Grassy Nar...

Dec 06, 2019

Events planned to mark sombre 30th anniversary of Polytechnique massacre

MONTREAL - Several events are planned across the country today to mark the grim 30th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre. On the evening of Dec. 6, 1989, a gunman entered Montreal's Ecole polytechniq...

Dec 06, 2019