Canada

Study shows economic benefits of patient approach to northern cod recovery

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A slow and steady approach to rebuilding the northern cod stock could see employment in the crucial fishery skyrocket in just over a decade, according to a new study. The repor...

May 26, 2019

Court rules B.C. can't limit oil shipments in major blow for pipeline fight

VANCOUVER - British Columbia lost the largest tool in its toolbox to halt the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion with a court decision Friday that concluded it can't restrict oil shipments through...

May 26, 2019

'Her life mattered:' High court orders new trial in death of Indigenous woman

The country's highest court has ruled an Ontario truck driver should be retried for manslaughter, but not murder, in the case of an Indigenous woman who bled to death in an Edmonto...

May 26, 2019

'Give Peace a Chance': Montreal celebrates John and Yoko bed-in 50 years later

MONTREAL - It was 50 years ago today, John and Yoko told the band to play. The week-long bed-in that saw a pyjama-clad John Lennon and Yoko Ono host a parade of journalists, LSD gurus, countercul...

May 25, 2019

Keep guard up against hurricanes in 2019, as risk remains potent: forecaster

HALIFAX - It has been years since a major tropical storm wreaked havoc in Canada, but the Canadian Hurricane Centre is warning against complacency. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

May 25, 2019

Canada seeing spike in temporary visas as migrant worker advocates raise alarm

OTTAWA - Applications for temporary resident visas issued to visitors, students and temporary workers in Canada have more than quadrupled since 2015, stretching the Immigration Department's ability to...

May 25, 2019

Ottawa orders tight new restrictions on sugary, purified high-alcohol drinks

OTTAWA - New restrictions on sugary, purified alcoholic beverages took effect Thursday, following several months of federal consultations and at least two deaths over an 18-month span. The a...

May 25, 2019

'Absolutely horrific:' RCMP allege 17 children abused on Manitoba First Nation

WINNIPEG - Two men and a foster mother have been charged following an investigation that police say found at least 17 children who were sexually and physically abused in a Manitoba Indigenous com...

May 25, 2019

Canadian Human Rights Museum could include Quebec's secularism legislation

QUEBEC - The Quebec government's latest attempt to legislate on secularism could find its way into the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg. The Legault government's B...

May 25, 2019

A timeline of official apologies from the federal government

OTTAWA - When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday exonerated Chief Poundmaker in Saskatchewan, it was the latest in a long list of government efforts to apologize for past wrongs. Here...

May 25, 2019