Canada

No winning ticket for Saturday night's $7 million Lotto 649 jackpot

TORONTO - There was no winning ticket for the $7 million jackpot in Saturday night's Lotto 649 draw. However, the draw's guaranteed $1 million prize went to a ticket holder in Ontario. The jackpot for...

Jul 28, 2019

Via's case for major rail project better without Montreal-Quebec leg: internal doc

OTTAWA - Via Rail's business case for a multibillion-dollar high-frequency-rail project between Toronto and Quebec City would receive a boost if it ditched the stretch fr...

Jul 28, 2019

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 28, 2019

Feds take digital step to reshape benefits system for expat seniors

OTTAWA - The federal government is moving to trade, in bulk, information on expatriate seniors with other countries to save time and money when one of them dies. About three million Canadians liv...

Jul 28, 2019

'Yes the bridges are cut': Kanesatake Grand Chief refuses talks with Oka mayor

MONTREAL - A war of words between a First Nations grand chief and a small-town Quebec mayor instigated hours of meetings Friday with federal and provincial officials, but the underlying conflict ...

Jul 28, 2019

Supreme Court of Canada says military's no-juries justice system constitutional

OTTAWA - Military members accused of serious offences under military law do not have a constitutional right to jury trials, the Supreme Court ruled Friday. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms guar...

Jul 28, 2019

Government 'didn't care' about reducing emissions: Inside Quebec's green fund

MONTREAL - When Ljiljana Latkovic was named to the council governing Quebec's multibillion-dollar green fund in 2017, she thought she was going to use her science background to help choose projec...

Jul 28, 2019

Catholics in Cape Breton defy bishop's order to close 200-year-old church

CHRISTMAS ISLAND, N.S. - A renegade group of Roman Catholics in Cape Breton is defying a bid by the local bishop to shut down their 200-year-old parish. The Church of St. Barra&nbs...

Jul 28, 2019

Federal lawyers broke no rules in Hassan Diab extradition case, review finds

Ottawa academic Hassan Diab is rejecting the results of an external review into his extradition case as a "whitewash exercise," arguing the document's only purpose was to absolve C...

Jul 28, 2019

Transportation Safety Board sends investigators to assess B.C. seaplane crash

VANCOUVER - The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is sending a team of investigators to the scene of a seaplane accident that killed four people and left five injured on a remote, uninhabited...

Jul 27, 2019