Canada

Trudeau Liberals pledge $150M toward big-data cancer research initiative

OTTAWA - The Liberal government is moving forward with funding for a new cancer research network that aims to advance the science of individually customized cancer treatment. Federal Health Minis...

Jul 11, 2019

Controversial Chateau Laurier expansion not good enough, McKenna says

OTTAWA - Environment Minister Catherine McKenna wants the owners of the Chateau Laurier to come up with another plan for an addition to the historic hotel even after Ottawa's city council approved the...

Jul 11, 2019

Military facing challenges as court-martial system remains in limbo

OTTAWA - Canadian military police and prosecutors are being forced to adapt as they wait for the Supreme Court to rule on whether the military-justice system is constitutional. That includes having to...

Jul 11, 2019

Big, old B.C. trees produce mutations over time that could improve success: UBC

VICTORIA - Researchers collected DNA from the tops of some of Canada's tallest trees to search for mutations that could provide evidence of how the ancient forest giants evolve to survi...

Jul 11, 2019

Multiple injuries aboard Air Canada flight after plane hits turbulence

MONTREAL - Nearly three dozen passengers sustained minor injuries Thursday when an Air Canada flight travelling from Toronto to Sydney, Australia, ran into severe turbulence, prompting an em...

Jul 11, 2019

Once driven near extinction, wild turkeys making themselves at home in Quebec

MONTREAL - They arrived a few years ago - three-foot tall, bare-headed visitors that would occasionally stare intently at residents from their balconies and yards. The wild turkeys fra...

Jul 11, 2019

Freeland calls ex-envoy's advice to China about election 'highly inappropriate'

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is distancing the Trudeau government from its former ambassador to China, a day after he said he has warned Chinese officials that further punishmen...

Jul 11, 2019

Promised quick-reaction force of 200 peacekeepers yet to be registered with UN

OTTAWA - A Canadian pledge of 200 soldiers for peacekeeping missions is missing in action more than 18 months after it was first made to the United Nations by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The "...

Jul 11, 2019

'A lot of work to do:' Premiers talk child welfare with Indigenous leaders

BIG RIVER FIRST NATION, Sask. - The head of the Assembly of First Nations had a receptive audience with most of Canada's premiers Tuesday over the need to implement changes to reduce the number of Ind...

Jul 11, 2019

More 'work to do' to mobilize Canadians on climate change action: Trudeau

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has more work to do to sell Canadians on his vision for more action to fight climate change. Speaking at the annual meeting of the Canadian Teachers...

Jul 11, 2019