Canada

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 extreme weather events such as fires in northern Alberta. Trudeau says Canadians are seeing the impact of...

Jun 04, 2019

Alberta naturopath tells trial she suggested sick boy go to emergency

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - A naturopath has testified she recommended an Alberta couple take their toddler to an emergency room before he died of bacterial meningitis. David and Collet Stephan have pleaded n...

Jun 04, 2019

Trudeau accepts inquiry finding of genocide, but says focus must be on response

VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he accepts the finding that Canada's treatment of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls amounts to genocide. Debate has erupted over the defini...

Jun 04, 2019

Trudeau pledges more funding for reproductive health services worldwide

OTTAWA - The Liberal government says it will increase Canadian funding for women's health worldwide to $1.4 billion every year starting in 2023, with half of this money dedicated t...

Jun 04, 2019

Low profile for Canada on Tiananmen anniversary amid Kovrig, Spavor jailings

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau marked Tuesday's 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre by saying he has real concerns about China's human-rights record, including the repr...

Jun 04, 2019

Quebec zoo at heart of cruelty allegations ordered closed by workers' safety board

ST-EDOUARD-DE-MASKINONGE, Que. - The Quebec workers' safety board has ordered the closure a small zoo at the heart of an animal cruelty investigation and the removal of the animals that remain on...

Jun 04, 2019

Justice committee votes to expunge words of Christchurch shooter from record

OTTAWA - The name and words of the man accused of killing 51 people in Christchurch, New Zealand will be expunged from the parliamentary record after a vote in the House of Commons justice committee T...

Jun 04, 2019

Fallen officers remembered five years after Moncton shooting rampage

MONCTON, N.B. - The commanding officer of the RCMP in New Brunswick is calling on the public to continue to honour the legacy of three Mounties killed by a gunman in Moncton five years ago today. Cons...

Jun 04, 2019

In the news today, June 4

Five stories in the news for Tuesday, June 4 --- WOMEN STILL FACING HATRED, RACISM: TRUDEAU Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the rights of women are backsliding and gender equality is under att...

Jun 04, 2019

Employers face long delays for temporary foreign workers as demand spikes

OTTAWA - Some employers looking to hire temporary foreign workers are experiencing significant delays due to an increase in demand this year for migrant workers in Canada. The federal government says ...

Jun 04, 2019