Canada

Law centre at UVic to train generation of Indigenous legal scholars

VICTORIA - The University of Victoria is expanding its law school building to house the new National Centre for Indigenous Laws. The federal and B.C. governments and the Law Foundation of B.C. are con...

Sep 03, 2020

Canadian Space Agency gets first female president

OTTAWA - The Canadian Space Agency is getting its first female president. Longtime public servant Lisa Campbell has been tapped by the Trudeau government to take the agency's reins, the first woman to...

Sep 03, 2020

Push on for Alberta bottle depots to accept cannabis containers for refunds

EDMONTON - The group that oversees bottle depots in Alberta says people should be allowed to drop off cannabis containers and get a small refund just as they do for bottles and cans.The Alberta Bottle...

Sep 03, 2020

Parents in court demanding Quebec offer remote learning option for all who want it

MONTREAL - A lawyer representing a group of Quebec parents is in court today trying to compel the province's Education Department to provide an online learning option for all families who wa...

Sep 03, 2020

Military members asked to use federal government's COVID-19 tracking app

OTTAWA - Canadian Armed Forces members and their civilian colleagues in the Department of National Defence are being strongly encouraged to download the federal government's smartphone application for...

Sep 03, 2020

Tories ask languages czar to probe choice of WE Charity for student program

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives are asking the official languages commissioner to investigate the government's choice of WE Charity to run a student grant program, saying the move showed contempt t...

Sep 03, 2020

Backer of tariffs on Canadian aluminum confronts critics in Canada, U.S.

WASHINGTON - One of the few champions of the Trump administration's decision to slap fresh tariffs on Canadian aluminum is defending the move as vital to the industry's surviv...

Sep 03, 2020

Feds short $14.5 billion over decade of equalization payments, PBO says

OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer says the federal government has shortchanged provinces on their equalization payments under rules put in place after the last economic crisis in the late...

Sep 03, 2020

Lawsuit filed against makers of Montreal-area dike that burst, flooding town

MONTREAL - A Montreal-area town says its insurance company is suing the maker of a dike that burst last spring, flooding streets and forcing thousands of residents from their homes. Official...

Sep 03, 2020

Canada's economic optimism crippled by pandemic, Pew poll suggests

WASHINGTON - A new global poll says confidence in the Canadian economy took a dramatic dive over the summer in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic - a whipsaw pivot sharper than any of the other c...

Sep 03, 2020