Canada

National framework needed for emotional-service animals: Rempel

OTTAWA - A Conservative MP says she would like to see national standards on the use of emotional service animals in public spaces after watching her husband encounter numerous barriers while ...

Jul 17, 2019

Mercury tops out on top of the world: Alert in Nunavut warmer than Victoria

Weather watchers are focused on the world's most northerly community which has been in the middle of a record-breaking heat wave. "It's really quite spectacular," said David Phillips, Environment...

Jul 17, 2019

Abuse survivors await apology from Anglican Church for physical harm: Bennett

OTTAWA - Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett says the Anglican Church's recent apology for "spiritual harm" it has done to Indigenous Peoples is a beginning. But she says survivors of ...

Jul 17, 2019

Younger voters mobilizing to make federal election about climate change

OTTAWA - Several hundred Canadian millennials plan to rally in at least 30 cities across the country today, demanding a federal leaders' debate on climate change. Emma Jackson, a field organizer with ...

Jul 17, 2019

U.S. canoeists besieged by grizzly on Northwest Territories canoe trip rescued

YELLOWKNIFE - Mounties say a pair of American travellers had to rescued from the Northwest Territories wilderness after a grizzly bear destroyed their canoe. RCMP say they got...

Jul 17, 2019

Toronto man who lost family in Ethiopian plane crash testifies at US Congress

A Toronto man who lost his family in the crash of a Boeing 737 Max jet in Ethiopia called Wednesday for a stronger aircraft approval process in the U.S. and said more people would die if that typ...

Jul 17, 2019

Interviews with family of highway shooting victim heard in Calgary court

CALGARY - The trial of an Alberta youth accused of firing a gun at a German tourist on a highway west of Calgary is having to rely on police interviews done with the family after he was shot...

Jul 17, 2019

'Told to shoot:' Trial begins for Alberta youth in shooting of German tourist

CALGARY - There was conflicting testimony in court Monday about whether a youth charged in the shooting of a German tourist on an Alberta highway may have acted on his own or was ordered to ...

Jul 17, 2019

Search for missing Quebec businessman, son stretches into fifth day

MONTREAL - A sonar-equipped provincial police boat explored a deep reservoir Monday for signs of a missing helicopter carrying a Quebec entrepreneur and his teen son who haven't been heard from since ...

Jul 17, 2019

Anglican Church rejects same-sex marriage amendment; will not add policy to national laws

The Anglican Church of Canada narrowly voted down a proposal to bless same-sex marriage across the denomination, with its newly elected leader acknowledging the disappointment the decision w...

Jul 17, 2019