Canada

Police going door to door in northern Manitoba hunt for B.C. homicide suspects

GILLAM, Man. - More personnel and equipment are being poured into the gruelling hunt for two B.C. homicide suspects in the bug infested and bog strewn landscape surrounding the tiny nor...

Jul 29, 2019

In the news today, July 29

Six stories in the news for Monday, July 29 --- NEW TIP IN MANHUNT FOR B.C. MURDER SUSPECTS A new tip has led police involved in the escalating manhunt for two B.C. murder suspects to anothe...

Jul 29, 2019

U.S. House breaks with no new NAFTA tabled for ratification. Now what?

OTTAWA - The U.S. House of Representatives began its summer break today leaving the ratification of the new North American trade deal hanging, rekindling angst that a frustrated President Donald Trump...

Jul 29, 2019

International shipping industry under the microscope as whale death toll grows

HALIFAX - The shipping industry is under increased scrutiny after two cargo ships were fined for sailing too fast through the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where the rising death toll amon...

Jul 29, 2019

Four bodies found in Markham, Ont., home; one man in custody

MARKHAM, Ont. - Police say one person is in custody after four bodies were found in a home north of Toronto on Sunday afternoon. York regional police did not say what charges the 20-year-old man ...

Jul 28, 2019

U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders joins group seeking cheaper insulin in Canada

U.S. presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders said it's an "embarrassment" that Americans have to travel to Canada to buy cheaper medicine, pointing once again to Canada's health-care system as a...

Jul 28, 2019

B.C. murder suspect's father reveals details of troubled life in book

VANCOUVER - The father of a British Columbia murder suspect has written a book that sheds new light on his mental health, explains harassment convictions involving his ex-wife and provides greater ins...

Jul 28, 2019

Inquiry into Glen Assoun wrongful conviction should be led by Nova Scotia: Lametti

HALIFAX - The federal justice minister says he feels sorry for a man wrongfully convicted of murder, but he's leaving the decision about an inquiry into the rol...

Jul 28, 2019

Deadline coming: Scientists tell environment minister to speed up conservation

Some of North America's top conservation scientists have written to the federal government urging it to speed up land protection in Canada. The 32 scientists from 23 universities and other o...

Jul 28, 2019

Scientists in Gulf of St. Lawrence see four of seven right whale calves born this year

HALIFAX - A recent scientific trip in the Gulf of St. Lawrence made multiple sightings of endangered North Atlantic right whales, including four of the seven calves born last winter. Amy Knowlton, a l...

Jul 28, 2019