Canada

New charges laid against father in death of 7-year-old Quebec girl

GRANBY, Que. - New charges have been laid against the father of a seven-year-old Granby girl who died in late April after being found badly injured in the family home east of Montreal. The 3...

Jun 06, 2019

UNB prof under fire for immigration views to retire, school says

FREDERICTON - A University of New Brunswick professor denounced by colleagues for promoting what they say are racist arguments about immigration has agreed to retire. The school announced Tuesday that...

Jun 06, 2019

Feds have failed to explain 'inaction' in Grassy Narrows: UN rapporteur

OTTAWA - A United Nations human-rights expert says the case of a northern Ontario First Nation plagued by mercury contamination is "emblematic" of an overall pattern of inaction in the face of grave r...

Jun 06, 2019

Scheer vows internal free-trade deal as part of vision for stronger federation

OTTAWA - Andrew Scheer is promising that a Conservative government would negotiate a deal to eliminate trade barriers among Canada's provinces. The Conservative leader made the commitment Tuesday...

Jun 06, 2019

Policing community eyes change after missing, murdered Indigenous women inquiry

OTTAWA - Melanie Morrison says her sister went missing in June 2006 - a unusual disappearance because she was a young mother. She says when their mom went to police, her sister was presumed to be "out...

Jun 06, 2019

Trudeau pushes ratification of new NAFTA despite U.S. tariff threat on Mexico

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is moving forward with ratifying the new North American trade deal despite fresh tensions between Mexico and the United States. He says Canada i...

Jun 06, 2019

China wants to fix 'serious difficulties' with Canada by meeting halfway: envoy

OTTAWA - China's ambassador to Canada says his government wants to end the countries' impasse but won't give way on two of Canada's major complaints. "Indeed, the bilateral relatio...

Jun 06, 2019

Philippines lifts Canadian travel ban but no return of ambassador yet

OTTAWA - The Philippines is slowly normalizing diplomatic relations with Canada now that the trash tiff of 2019 has come to a close. Philippine executive secretary Salvador Medialdea issued a memo to ...

Jun 06, 2019

Trudeau says carbon tax can help deal with extreme weather, Alberta fires

VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal carbon tax will help deal with weather disasters such as fires in northern Alberta. Speaking in Vancouver, Trudeau said Canadi...

Jun 06, 2019

'It's hard to think about them': Emotions run free as Canadians mark D-Day

COURSEULLES-SUR-MER, France - Joseph Edwardson couldn't hold back the tears. Exactly 75 years earlier, Edwardson and thousands of other young Canadian men had come ashore on this very beach in norther...

Jun 06, 2019