Canada

Police make arrest, Canadian 'shocked' after fiance's murder in New Zealand

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - New Zealand police have charged a man with murder after a tourist was killed in a seemingly random attack on a van that sparked a large manhunt after the victim's Canadi...

Aug 18, 2019

Andrew Scheer calls on Liberal MPs to further probe SNC-Lavalin affair

OTTAWA - Federal ethics commissioner Mario Dion says he's willing to testify about his scathing report on Trudeau's handling of the SNC-Lavalin affair - if he's invited to do so by the ...

Aug 18, 2019

85-year-old, lifting since 1950, on track to cinch weightlifting championship

MONTREAL - Olympic-style weightlifting isn't just about strength or power. It's about speed, coordination, focus. More than five decades ago, Marcel Perron learned that in a visceral way. The 85-year-...

Aug 17, 2019

City of Saskatoon hit by internet fraud that sends $1M to wrong bank account

SASKATOON - The City of Saskatoon says it has lost $1 million in an online scam. City manager Jeff Jorgenson says a fraudster electronically impersonated the chief financial officer of a construc...

Aug 17, 2019

Chrystia Freeland condemns violence in Hong Kong, backs right to peaceful assembly

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is condemning violence in Hong Kong as tension escalates between pro-democracy protesters and police. She made the remarks in a joint statement...

Aug 17, 2019

SNC's court bid to avoid prosecution to proceed through election period

OTTAWA - SNC-Lavalin's court fight for a special agreement to avoid prosecution on corruption charges continues to lurch along, despite the prospect of a criminal trial and We...

Aug 17, 2019

Testy exchange between Quebec immigration minister and UN representative

Quebec has spent hundreds of millions of dollars resettling refugees and asylum seekers over the past few years, which is more than its fair share, Immigration Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette ...

Aug 17, 2019

Canadians killed in Afghanistan honoured at re-dedication ceremony of cenotaph

OTTAWA - More than 150 Canadians killed during the war in Afghanistan are being remembered in a special ceremony in Ottawa this morning. The ceremony, which is being attended by hundreds of family mem...

Aug 17, 2019

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson comes out as gay after 40 years

OTTAWA - After 40 years, Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson has come out as gay. In a column published in the Ottawa Citizen on Saturday, Watson writes that it was a "mistake" not coming out ...

Aug 17, 2019

Northerners applaud funding for long-awaited road through Arctic tundra

Two federal announcements this week are expected to kick-start a long-awaited road into the heart of the Canadian Arctic that would lower grocery costs for northern families and unlock billions o...

Aug 17, 2019