Canada

Environmental groups keep fighting KXL despite Biden's promise to block pipeline

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Critics of Canada's most controversial cross-border pipeline projects aren't taking their demise for granted under president-elect Joe Biden. A new report from the U.S.-based Rainfo...

Dec 08, 2020

Psychiatrist set for seventh day of testimony in Toronto's van attack trial

TORONTO - A psychiatrist retained by the defence is set to testify for the seventh straight day at the trial for the man who killed 10 people on a Toronto sidewalk with a rental van. Dr. Alexander Wes...

Dec 08, 2020

Disproportionate impact of COVID-19, UNDRIP legislation on the table at AFN meeting

OTTAWA - The Assembly of First Nations is planning to urge the federal Liberal government to do more to deal with the disproportionate impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on their communities in a ...

Dec 08, 2020

Pandemic financial pressures deplete finances, spirits as festive season approaches

TORONTO - Pandemic restrictions and financial strain mean Christmas will look different than past years for Tia Cyr and her family, so she enlisted Santa in breaking the news to her son. The Alberta m...

Dec 07, 2020

Police testify at coroner's inquest into 2018 murder of Quebec toddler

QUEBEC - A coroner's inquest into the brutal 2018 murder of a two-year-old girl whose body was found dumped in a garbage can opened Monday with the testimony of the Quebec City police officers who inv...

Dec 07, 2020

Eight people test positive for COVID-19 at B.C. mink farm, outbreak declared

BURNABY, B.C. - A health authority has declared a COVID-19 outbreak at a mink farm after eight people at the operation in British Columbia's Fraser Valley tested positive for the disease. Fraser Healt...

Dec 07, 2020

Speakers' Spotlight threatened after being caught up in WE affair: co-founder

OTTAWA - A small business that booked speaking engagements for Justin Trudeau and his family has been caught in the partisan crossfire of the WE Charity affair. Martin Perelmuter, who co-founded Speak...

Dec 07, 2020

5,800 years of droppings: Unique approach yields first long-term seabird trend data

Scientists have sifted through nearly 6,000 years of seabird droppings to get what they say could be the first long-term reading on how their numbers are affected by humans. A paper published today de...

Dec 07, 2020

Prime Minister says first COVID-19 vaccine doses arriving this month

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the first COVID-19 vaccine doses are on track to arrive this month, as tough new measures took effect in Prince Edward Island and Ontario hit a new daily case record...

Dec 07, 2020

Liberals set to kick-start talks on new child-care system and funding, Hussen says

OTTAWA - Families Minister Ahmed Hussen says it will be mostly up to the provinces and territories how to spend hundreds of millions in new funding on their child-care workforce.The Liberals unveiled ...

Dec 07, 2020