Canada

Blockade on CP Rail tracks in Kahnawake comes down after more than three weeks

KAHNAWAKE, Que. - A blockade in the Mohawk territory of Kahnawake that halted rail traffic south of Montreal for more than three weeks came to a peaceful end on Thursday as ac...

Mar 07, 2020

Academics say Indigenous perspectives still lacking in Canadian STEM studies

TORONTO - In order to learn about how Canada's Indigenous astronomers see the skies, Caroline Ormrod had to look overseas. The Toronto resident was interested in pursuing graduate work that would allo...

Mar 07, 2020

Stung by Iran tragedy, Canada leading bid to better protect airliners

WASHINGTON - Canada is taking a lead role in what Transport Minister Marc Garneau said Thursday he hopes will become an international effort to better protect civilian airliners around the world from ...

Mar 07, 2020

Minassian admits planning, carrying out deadly Toronto van attack

TORONTO - A man who killed 10 people when he drove a van into crowds of pedestrians on a busy Toronto sidewalk in 2018 admitted to planning and carrying out the attack, court heard on Thursday. T...

Mar 07, 2020

Cosmetics company Lush calls for end of Safe Third Country deal with U.S.

OTTAWA - Cosmetics company Lush has launched a campaign calling on Canadians to pressure Parliament to back out of an agreement with the U.S. governing refugee claims. It's part of the company's ...

Mar 07, 2020

'If we stand back and do nothing, we get the Trudeau tax:' Manitoba premier

WINNIPEG - Caught between a federal government demanding a rising carbon tax and some Progressive Conservative supporters opposed to any such levy, Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister offered a compromis...

Mar 07, 2020

Canada funds development of COVID-19 'lab-in-a-box'

OTTAWA - Canadian researchers are developing a "lab-in-a-box" that could make it cheaper and faster to diagnose cases of the novel coronavirus, particularly in remote areas of the world. The project r...

Mar 07, 2020

Three new coronavirus cases in Ontario, pushing provincewide total to 23

TORONTO - Officials in Ontario are reporting a new case of the novel coronavirus that they say is linked to a cruise ship that left San Francisco in early February. Peel Public Health says t...

Mar 07, 2020

Supreme Court will not hear Trans Mountain pipeline expansion appeal cases

OTTAWA - The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project has cleared another legal hurdle. The Supreme Court of Canada has decided not to hear five challenges from environment and Indigen...

Mar 07, 2020

235 Canadians on cruise ship held for COVID-19 testing off California coast

OTTAWA - There are 235 Canadians on the passenger manifest for a cruise ship that is being held off the coast of California for coronavirus testing. Global Affairs Canada says there are no confirmed c...

Mar 07, 2020