Canada

Groups ask why strychnine banned against gophers but not for killing wolves

Environmental groups are wondering why Ottawa wants to ban farmers from killing gophers with strychnine but plans to allow provincial governments to use it against wolves. "All of the c...

Mar 12, 2020

Try, try again: Manitoba Tories blocked from tabling budget back at legislature

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is to try again today to introduce its budget after the Opposition blocked it from being tabled. The Progressive Conservatives planned to introduce its annual s...

Mar 12, 2020

Rome-based UN food agency grapples with Italian coronavirus lockdown

OTTAWA - These days, no roads lead to Rome for David Beasley. The executive director of the United Nations World Food Program made that clear on a trip to Ottawa this week, where he was trying to rais...

Mar 12, 2020

Labour, biz leaders urge federal-provincial common front on COVID-19 impact

OTTAWA - Canada's largest labour organization and the group that bills itself as the voice of business in this country have set aside their differences to jointly confront the economic ...

Mar 12, 2020

Indigenous leaders to meet with premiers, Trudeau

OTTAWA - Leaders of Canada's national Indigenous organizations say they hope talks with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Canada's premiers will lead to greater movement on implementing the&...

Mar 12, 2020

Canadian soldiers safe after deadly rocket attack kills in Iraq: DND

OTTAWA - The Department of National Defence reported all Canadian service members safe following a rocket attack on a military base in Iraq Wednesday. The attack killed at least two American...

Mar 11, 2020

Passengers on last flight into Canada from Rome talk of empty city

MONTREAL - Travellers arrived on the last Air Canada flight from Rome to Montreal today talking about an empty city that felt under siege from the novel coronavirus. Doris Hamelin and her husband...

Mar 11, 2020

Criminal case against top military judge collapses, charges withdrawn

OTTAWA - The criminal case against Canada's top military judge has collapsed. The Canadian Armed Forces' top prosecutor announced Wednesday that he was withdrawing all four charges against chief milit...

Mar 11, 2020

Father, stepmother will head straight to trial in death of Quebec 7-year-old

GRANBY, Que. - The father and stepmother of a slain seven-year-old Quebec girl will head straight to trial after they waived their right to a preliminary hearing, a court heard Monday. ...

Mar 11, 2020

Black boxes from downed Ukrainian flight to be transferred to Kyiv

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne is welcoming a promise from Iran to hand over the flight recorders from the Ukrainian jetliner shot down by the Iranian military earl...

Mar 11, 2020