Canada

Food fight: Liberals, Tories trade shots as pre-campaign battles intensify

OTTAWA - Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor is trying to distinguish the Liberals as a party of scientific, evidence-based policy while she says Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is spreading mis...

Jul 22, 2019

The Canadian Press appoints veteran Andrea Baillie as editor-in-chief

TORONTO - The Canadian Press is promoting managing editor Andrea Baillie to editor-in-chief, the first woman to oversee editorial operations at the national news wire. The veteran wire ...

Jul 22, 2019

Huawei Canada says it met federal security requirements for new Arctic 4G project

OTTAWA - Huawei Canada says it has received federal approval to work with a northern telecom company and an Inuit development corporation to extend high-speed 4G wireless services to 70 communities in...

Jul 22, 2019

Provincial police suspend aerial search for missing businessman, son

MONTREAL - Quebec provincial police are suspending helicopter searches today for a Quebec businessman and his teen son missing for 12 days somewhere in a vast area of the upper Laurentians. Police say...

Jul 22, 2019

Federal money to help veterans find housing, basic services

OTTAWA - A Montreal project to help homeless veterans find a place to live and other necessary services is among 22 initiatives receiving federal money from a fund that suppor...

Jul 22, 2019

Air Force will end search for missing Quebec businessman and his son

MONTREAL - The Royal Canadian Air Force said Saturday it will gradually reduce its search operations for a missing Quebec businessman and his son before handing the case over to the pro...

Jul 22, 2019

Two men go missing in northern B.C. near where body is found

DEASE LAKE, B.C. - RCMP in northern British Columbia are searching for two young Vancouver Island men whose vehicle was discovered on fire Friday in the same area where police say a body was...

Jul 22, 2019

Crime rate rose in 2018 but country still safer than a decade ago

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the country's crime rate ticked up again in 2018, for a fourth year in a row, though it was still lower than it was a decade ago.The severity of crime also rose by two ...

Jul 22, 2019

Poor weather prevents attempt to free entangled North Atlantic right whale

HALIFAX - Poor weather conditions have forced a whale rescue team to postpone its bid to disentangle a North Atlantic right whale from fishing gear that is trailing from its head. The federa...

Jul 22, 2019

In the news today, July 22

Four stories in the news for Monday, July 22 --- VIGIL ON FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF DANFORTH SHOOTING Members of Toronto's Greektown community will gather tonight to remember the victims of ...

Jul 22, 2019