Canada

Retired UBC professor Peter Winterburn killed in Chile, school confirms

VALPARAISO, Chile - A retired geochemistry professor from the University of British Columbia has been killed in attempted robbery in Valparaiso, Chile, the school confirmed Saturday. In a post on Face...

Jun 22, 2019

B.C. tanker-ban, environment assessment bills scale final hurdle in Senate

OTTAWA - A pair of controversial environmental bills scaled their final hurdle in the Senate on Thursday, over the objections of critics who warn the two pieces of legislation will knee...

Jun 22, 2019

Calgary manslaughter trial hears five-year-old boy victim of weeks of abuse

CALGARY - A more prosperous life was supposed to be in store for Emilio Perdomo when he was brought to Canada from Mexico in February 2015. But instead, a Crown prosecutor says, the little b...

Jun 22, 2019

Elections Canada scraps social media 'influencers' to encourage youth vote

OTTAWA - Elections Canada has scrapped plans to use social-media "influencers" to persuade young Canadians to register to vote in this fall's federal election. Chief electoral officer Stephane Perraul...

Jun 22, 2019

Teens have privacy rights, doctor tells inquest into 16-year-old's opioid death

VICTORIA - Two family doctors and an orthopedic surgeon told a British Columbia coroner's inquest Thursday about the dilemmas they faced treating a 16-year-old patient who denied he was...

Jun 22, 2019

Alberta asks Court of Appeal to look at constitutionality of federal carbon tax

EDMONTON - Alberta's justice minister says the province is asking for a legal opinion on the constitutionality of the federal government imposing its carbon tax. At a news conferen...

Jun 22, 2019

Indigenous drummers lead pipeline protesters on 22-kilometre march in Victoria

VICTORIA - Indigenous drummers in British Columbia are leading an anti-pipeline protest along a 22-kilometre route today that passes through Victoria and ends at a beach south of the city. Hundreds of...

Jun 22, 2019

Inhumane practice of carving fins off live sharks to become illegal in Canada

OTTAWA - Carving fins off live sharks and tossing them in the ocean to drown will be illegal in Canada as early as Friday. Importing shark fins that are no longer attached to sharks will als...

Jun 22, 2019

Hussen says he wants Canada to accept more refugees as economic immigrants

OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen says he would like to see Canada welcome more refugees than it currently accepts and believes more of them should be able to enter through economic immigrati...

Jun 22, 2019

B.C. imposes interim moratorium on resource development to protect caribou

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government announced an interim moratorium on resource development in parts of the south Peace region on Thursday, giving itself more time to sign a long-ter...

Jun 22, 2019