Canada

G7 leaders should step up own climate plans to help the Amazon, Greenpeace says

OTTAWA - Greenpeace officials in Canada and abroad say G7 leaders wanting to help stop the Amazon rainforest from burning need to look at their own backyards as the place to start. A record numbe...

Aug 23, 2019

Groups ready large get-out-the-vote campaign to keep youth turnout high

OTTAWA - Caro Loutfi is busy at her Montreal office preparing ways to get young voters to cast a ballot in this fall's federal election. Loutfi is the executive director of Apathy is Boring, a non-par...

Aug 23, 2019

Trudeau vows to stand firm against 'increasingly assertive' China

MONTREAL - Canada won't back down in its defence of Canadians against an increasingly assertive China, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday following another round of sharp criticism from the ...

Aug 23, 2019

Code Orange: inside a Toronto hospital's preparation for the next catastrophe

TORONTO - The warning signalling a mass casualty situation blares out from the overhead speakers in the emergency department at St. Michael's Hospital minutes before the first patient shuffles in with...

Aug 23, 2019

Senate's new independence so good it should be enshrined in law: Harder

OTTAWA - The Liberal government's representative in the Senate says changes aimed at making the upper chamber a more independent place have worked so well that they should stay. Sen. Peter H...

Aug 23, 2019

Hotter, larger fires turning boreal forest into carbon source: research

Bigger, hotter wildfires are turning Canada's vast boreal forest into a significant new source of climate-changing greenhouse gases, scientists say. The shift, which may have already happened, could f...

Aug 23, 2019

People's Party outlines seats with prominent candidates in bid to enter debates

OTTAWA - The upstart People's Party of Canada is making another bid to get leader Maxime Bernier onto the official debate stage during this fall's election campaign. The Leaders' Debates Commissi...

Aug 23, 2019

NAFTA, Hong Kong on agenda for Trudeau-Trump bilateral meeting during G7 summit

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will have a tete-a-tete with President Donald Trump this weekend on the margins of the G7 summit in France. White House officials have confirmed the bilateral me...

Aug 23, 2019

Ottawa police charge transit driver with 38 offences in deadly bus crash

Ottawa police are charging the driver of a city bus with more than three dozen offences after a deadly crash in January that killed three people and injured 23 others. Aissatou Diallo was in...

Aug 23, 2019

Ontario shipyard accuses feds of unfairly stacking deck in Davie's favour

OTTAWA - An Ontario shipyard is accusing the federal government of trying to unfairly award Quebec's Davie Shipbuilding potentially billions of dollars worth of work without a competition. The allegat...

Aug 23, 2019