Canada

Trudeau shoots back at China's claim it is being 'naive' in courting allies

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that President Donald Trump made good on his pledge to raise the plight of the two Canadians imprisoned in China with President Xi Jinping. Tr...

Jul 06, 2019

PM defends system for appointing judges amid questions about ties to N.B. minister

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is defending the federal system for appointing judges after revelations several in New Brunswick have personal connections to Liberal cabinet minister Dominic Le...

Jul 06, 2019

Trudeau announces $1.3 billion for Montreal metro extension as election looms

MONTREAL - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau committed $1.3 billion of federal funding Thursday towards extending Montreal's metro line - a project first announced by Rene Levesque in 1979. To descri...

Jul 06, 2019

Funeral held for Canadian soldier killed in Bulgarian skydiving exercise

GATINEAU, Que. - Soldiers, friends and family are attending a military funeral in Gatineau, Que., for a Canadian soldier who died in a parachute training exercise in Bulgaria. Bombardier Patrick ...

Jul 06, 2019

Supreme Court of Canada rejects Saskatchewan hit-man murder appeal

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear the appeal of a gang leader who was behind a botched hit in which a mother of four was killed when she opened her front door. Lorry Ann Santos w...

Jul 06, 2019

Vancouver shipyard used one new coast guard vessel to repair, deliver another

OTTAWA - New documents show a Vancouver shipyard was able to deliver the first of the coast guard's three new science vessels last week only by cannibalizing parts from one of the other ships for repa...

Jul 06, 2019

Parliament has an official sergeant-at-arms, after four-year wait

OTTAWA - The federal government has officially appointed a new sergeant-at-arms for the House of Commons, four years after the appointee took on that role in an acting capacity. The Prime Mi...

Jul 06, 2019

Plans to save threatened B.C. caribou on hold as NDP mends fences

VICTORIA - Premier John Horgan's New Democrats continue to face widespread criticism in northeast British Columbia over the government's attempts to introduce plans to save threatened caribou herds. P...

Jul 06, 2019

Pay-worker retention deal expires, renewing concerns about Phoenix backlog

OTTAWA - The lapse of an agreement that gave retention bonuses to federal pay centre employees could halt - or even reverse - progress that's been made in reducing a massive backlog of pay problems ge...

Jul 06, 2019

In the news today, July 4

Five stories in the news for Thursday, July 4 --- 'NAIVE' CANADA SHOULDN'T BELIEVE TRUMP: CHINA The Chinese government is accusing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of being naive in assuming th...

Jul 06, 2019