Category Archives: Canada

Liberals push Tories to show climate-policy hand with climate-change motion
OTTAWA - Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is pushing Parliament to declare that Canada is in a "climate change emergency." Her new motion, which is to be debated Thursday, asks MPs to ...
May 14, 2019

Freeland to meet Lighthizer in Washington to push for tariff removal
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is bound for Washington to meet with Trump trade czar Robert Lighthizer in a renewed push to get punitive steel and aluminum tariffs lifted. The mee...
May 14, 2019

Mother of child who died angry anti-vaccine page used girl's image on Facebook
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The mother of a young Newfoundland girl who died last summer is furious her daughter's altered image was used online as part of an anti-vaccination campaign...
May 14, 2019

Mother, son in hospital after allegedly being hit by dad's vehicle
BRAMPTON, Ont. - A man has been charged with impaired driving after he allegedly ran over his wife and seven-year-old son, who remains in hospital in life-threatening condition. Peel Regional Pol...
May 14, 2019

The arrests of two men in Richmond Hill, Ont., not related to national security: Goodale
RICHMOND HILL, Ont. - Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says the arrests of two men in Ontario charged with possession of an explosive device is not related to national security. The comment came&n...
May 14, 2019

Recipe collection offers insight into 18th century life in the Maritimes
FREDERICTON - You're not going to find the latest recipe for avocado toast, but a new collection of recipes is offering an insight into early colonial life in the Maritimes, including advice for makin...
May 14, 2019

Chief of defence staff, DND deputy minister brief federal cabinet
OTTAWA - Canada's top general and the deputy minister of national defence are attending the federal cabinet this morning a week after the criminal case against the military's former second-in-com...
May 14, 2019

CP NewsAlert: Canadian among those killed in floatplane crash in Alaska
VANCOUVER - Global Affairs Canada has confirmed one Canadian is among the dead in a midair crash between sightseeing planes in Alaska. The department says the name or hometown of the vi...
May 14, 2019

State of emergency declared, evacuations ordered amid central B.C. wildfire
FRASER LAKE, B.C. - An active wildfire in central British Columbia has prompted a local state of emergency and several evacuations. The Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako issued a state of emer...
May 14, 2019

Canada's agriculture minister talks canola with Chinese counterpart at G20
TOKYO - Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau briefly met with her Chinese counterpart, where she expressed Canada's concern with the suspension of canola exports to China over claims it ...
May 14, 2019