Canada

Man charged after targeting Somali women in parking lot of Edmonton mall

EDMONTON - A 41-year-old man has been charged after he allegedly yelled racial slurs at two Somali woman wearing hijabs in an Edmonton mall parking lot.Police say in a news release that they responded...

Dec 09, 2020

Lametti questions Conservatives' sincerity in wanting to protect vulnerable

OTTAWA - Justice Minister David Lametti says Conservatives have no interest in improving a bill on assisted dying, they just want to stop it. The Conservatives have been talking out the clock on Bill ...

Dec 09, 2020

CBSA manager told not to take notes after Meng arrest in case of access request

VANCOUVER - A senior manager with the Canada Border Services Agency says she was instructed not to take notes after the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou - an arrest that will be under court scr...

Dec 09, 2020

Battle lines drawn for first ministers' meeting on health care

OTTAWA - Premiers aren't expecting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to agree immediately to their demand for at least $28 billion more each year for health care. First ministers are scheduled to meet via...

Dec 09, 2020

Permanent fishway to be built at Fraser River landslide: Fisheries and Oceans

VANCOUVER - Fisheries and Oceans Canada says it has awarded a contract that would see a permanent fishway built to help fish migrate past a massive landslide on a remote stretch of British Columbia's ...

Dec 09, 2020

Quebec tables bill to give families of missing Indigenous children access to records

MONTREAL - The Quebec government has introduced legislation that would allow relatives of Indigenous children who disappeared or died after being admitted to health-care facilities to obtain informati...

Dec 09, 2020

U.S. issues challenge to Canada's dairy quotas in first test of new trade agreement

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The United States is formally accusing Canada of unfairly limiting the ability of American dairy producers to sell their products north of the border. Robert Lighthizer, President D...

Dec 09, 2020

Quebec government lawyers tell court Bill 21 is not a violation of freedoms

MONTREAL - The Quebec government does not believe its secularism law violates freedom of religion, but rather it serves to frame it, a lawyer argued today.It was the turn of those defending the law kn...

Dec 09, 2020

Gunman behind mass shooting in Nova Scotia had targets in Halifax: search warrants

HALIFAX - Newly released documents suggest the gunman behind the April mass shooting in Nova Scotia had planned to "get" a pair of people in Halifax during his murderous rampage, but the Mounties were...

Dec 09, 2020

COVID-19 detected in Yellowknife wastewater, some people asked to get tested

The government of the Northwest Territories says it has found COVID-19 in wastewater in Yellowknife. The N.W.T.'s chief public health officer, Dr. Kami Kondola, says this means there is likely an unde...

Dec 09, 2020