Canada

Rural Canada's voice in cabinet says feds looking at funding community ISPs

OTTAWA - The minister in charge of a plan to help rural Canada thrive says she'll focus on expanding internet and cellphone coverage, even funding communities that want to be their own servi...

May 10, 2019

Rare look at northern spotted owl chick now possible thanks to B.C. webcam

LANGLEY, B.C. - Curious bird lovers can now get a glimpse of the youngest member of one of the most endangered creatures in Canada. A webcam has been set up above the nest of a pair of north...

May 10, 2019

Trump U.S. Senate ally says Kovrig, Spavor face 'harsh' treatment in China

OTTAWA - A powerful U.S. senator and Trump ally says China is detaining two Canadians in harsh conditions and U.S. lawmakers won't rest until they are freed. Idaho Sen. Jim Risch introduced a resoluti...

May 10, 2019

Federal Court of Appeal narrows release of Senate-scandal documents

OTTAWA - The Federal Court of Appeal says the government does not have to release parts of a government memo about the Senate's expense scandals in 2013 because it constituted legal advice for th...

May 10, 2019

Quebec targets three English Montreal schools for transfer to French board

MONTREAL - The Quebec government is telling the English school board serving Montreal that it will have to hand over three of its schools in the northeastern part of the city ...

May 10, 2019

N.L. Tory Leader boots candidate opposed to abortion and gay marriage

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Ches Crosbie, the leader of Newfoundland and Labrador's Progressive Conservative party, says a candidate opposed to legal abortion and same-sex marriage will not be in the Tory cauc...

May 10, 2019

Gerard Bouchard declares opposition to Quebec's 'radical' secularism bill

QUEBEC - A second prominent intellectual has told the Quebec government it is going down the wrong path with its secularism bill, saying there is no compelling reason to lump teach...

May 10, 2019

Blood-donor deferral period for men who have sex with men cut to three months

OTTAWA - Men who have had sex with men will be able to give blood after a deferral period of three months, down from a year, Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor said Wednesday. The decis...

May 10, 2019

Family of murdered Toronto physician 'destroyed,' court hears

TORONTO - Ana Fric says she would have given up on life after her daughter's brutal murder but her three young grandchildren give her a reason to live. Elana Fric Shamji was killed by her hu...

May 10, 2019

Ottawa announces $4.5-million in funding for three palliative care projects

MONCTON, N.B. - Three organizations that focus on palliative care will receive $4.5 million in funding from Ottawa. Federal Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor announced the funding for three proj...

May 10, 2019