Canada

Gas price inquiry questions Trans Mountain capacity, company denies collusion

VANCOUVER - One of the largest fuel companies in British Columbia says there's no retail market more competitive than gasoline in Canada and an executive denies any price setting between com...

Jul 19, 2019

New Brunswick judge to deliver decision today in Oland murder retrial

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - A New Brunswick judge will deliver his decision this morning in the retrial of Dennis Oland on a charge of second-degree murder in the death of his wealthy father in Saint John. Ric...

Jul 19, 2019

Firms know little about trade deals as Canada pushes to diversify: federal survey

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urged European partners this week to finalize Canada's trade deal with the EU, a push that came with his government facin...

Jul 19, 2019

Trudeau says Ottawa open to proposals for B.C. refinery as gas prices soar

VICTORIA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Ottawa is open to proposals from the private sector for a refinery in British Columbia, as a public inquiry into the province's soaring gas prices reviews...

Jul 18, 2019

Uncompetitive nomination races weaken parties, democracy, study says

OTTAWA - The opaque path federal parties take to select candidates for elections was detailed in a report Wednesday that warned of profound consequences for Canadian democracy ...

Jul 18, 2019

U.S. firm fined $2.9M for fuel spill that soiled B.C. First Nation territory

BELLA BELLA, B.C. - The company responsible for a fuel spill that contaminated the fishing territory of a First Nation on British Columbia's central coast has been fined $2.9 milli...

Jul 18, 2019

$900-million settlement reached in class action on sexual misconduct in military

OTTAWA - The federal government is paying $900 million to settle multiple class-action lawsuits lodged on behalf of survivors of sexual harassment, gender discrimination and sexual assault in the mili...

Jul 18, 2019

Chiefs honour Indigenous leader wrongfully hanged in B.C. 154 years ago today

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - Chiefs have gathered in New Westminster, B.C., to commemorate an Indigenous leader who was wrongfully tried and hanged 154 years ago. Chief Ahan was ha...

Jul 18, 2019

Expert body calls for expanded rules to fix news-outlet tax credit status

OTTAWA - The federal government should increase the scope of tax credits being made available to help small news-media outlets survive, an independent panel of experts recommended in a report iss...

Jul 18, 2019

Bad weather delays search for float plane passengers at Labrador crash site

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Bad weather has forced the RCMP to call off flights taking search teams to the remote Labrador lake where a float plane carrying seven people crashed on Monday. Three bodies ha...

Jul 18, 2019