Canada

Feds to look at public-health impact of cannabis legalization in mandated review

OTTAWA - Federal ministers are expected to launch a long-awaited review of the government's cannabis legislation today. The Liberals lifted a century-long prohibition on the recreational use and sale ...

Sep 22, 2022

YouTube, TikTok say Liberal online streaming bill fails to protect digital creators

OTTAWA - Online streaming giants YouTube and TikTok are asking Canadian senators to take a sober second look at an online streaming bill that they say would cause significant harm to Canadian digital ...

Sep 21, 2022

Justice minister urges senators to pass Liberal mandatory minimums bill

OTTAWA - Justice Minister David Lametti urged senators this evening to pass the Liberal government's proposed legislation on mandatory minimum penalties. He told senators during a committee hearing th...

Sep 21, 2022

Mounties in N.W.T. search for suspect after 1 dead, others injured in stabbing

FORT GOOD HOPE, N.W.T. - RCMP in the Northwest Territories are looking for a suspect in a stabbing that has left one dead and others injured. Mounties told residents in Fort Good Hope on Tuesday night...

Sep 21, 2022

Conservatives may support part of the Liberal government's affordability plan

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives are opening the door to supporting part of the Liberal government's affordability plan in one of their first moves with Pierre Poilievre as the new party leader. Tor...

Sep 21, 2022

Trudeau to attend assassinated Japanese PM Shinzo Abe's state funeral in Tokyo

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will attend a state funeral for Japan's assassinated former prime minister Shinzo Abe next week in Tokyo. The 67-year-old Abe, who had stepped down as prime mini...

Sep 21, 2022

De Havilland Canada to build airline manufacturing plant east of Calgary: Kenney

CALGARY - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says a new airplane manufacturing plant is to be built near Calgary. De Havilland Canada is scheduled to make the announcement Wednesday afternoon about its plan...

Sep 21, 2022

Snowbirds allowed back in the air after probe finds oil filter caused latest crash

OTTAWA - The Snowbirds have been cleared for takeoff after a crash in B.C. last month forced the military's famed aerobatics team to cancel appearances at several air shows. Military investigators say...

Sep 21, 2022

Inquests to be held into Saskatchewan stabbings, death of suspect in custody

REGINA - Saskatchewan's chief coroner says two public inquests are to be held following a deadly stabbing rampage northeast of Saskatoon on Sept. 4. One is to focus on 11 deaths on the James Smith Cre...

Sep 21, 2022

Positive Poilievre polling leads to talk of easing border restrictions: Tories

OTTAWA - Conservative members of Parliament say the Liberals are playing politics with COVID-19 border restrictions, and talk of scrapping those restrictions may have to do with the new Tory leader. T...

Sep 21, 2022