Canada

TSB finds defect in beacon on helicopter that crashed in Quebec, killing two

MONTREAL - The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is suggesting periodic inspections of emergency locator transmitters after finding a defect in the one aboard a helicopter that crashed in Que...

Feb 13, 2020

Federal NDP seeks provincial support for national pharmacare plan

OTTAWA - The New Democrats are asking the provinces to support their promised universal pharmacare legislation, hoping to win premiers over by calling on Ottawa to increase federal health tr...

Feb 13, 2020

The latest on protests across Canada in support of anti-pipeline demonstrators

Here is the latest news on protests across Canada over a natural-gas pipeline project in British Columbia: --- Demonstrators in Victoria are promising to shut down all provincial government offic...

Tanner King Feb 12, 2020

Lionel Desmond not thought to pose imminent threat health official tells inquiry

GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - A psychotherapist who talked to Lionel Desmond a few hours before he killed his family and himself says she didn't think the former soldier posed an imminent threat to hi...

Feb 13, 2020

Budget watchdog slashes economic growth projections, blames temporary factors

OTTAWA - Canada's budget watchdog says economic growth during the final quarter of 2019 will be "significantly weaker" than predicted in its fall report. In its latest report on near-term growth, the ...

Feb 13, 2020

Supreme Court of Canada to hear appeals on solitary confinement

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will revisit the decisions of courts in British Columbia and Ontario that said the federal law allowing prolonged solitary confinement in prison was unco...

Feb 13, 2020

Canadian research officials return from Geneva with plan to tackle coronavirus

OTTAWA - Canada will aim $6.5 million at research on stopping the spread of the novel coronavirus, after co-ordinating with researchers around the world on tackling the outbreak. Representatives of&nb...

Feb 13, 2020

Rail services continue to feel brunt of anti-pipeline protests across country

Via Rail has extended train cancellations on major routes in Ontario and Quebec as protests against a pipeline in northern B.C. stretched into a sixth-day on Wednesday. Passenger and freight rail...

Feb 13, 2020

Second plane carrying evacuees from Wuhan arrives at CFB Trenton in Ontario

OTTAWA - A second Canadian plane carrying evacuees from the quarantined region of Hubei, China, has landed at Canadian Forces Base Trenton in southern Ontario. Foreign Affairs Minister Franc...

Feb 13, 2020

Cheer up Montreal, the cheerleaders are back; In The News for Feb. 11

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Feb. 11 ... What...

Feb 13, 2020