Canada

Alberta uninterested in federal 'handout' if Teck mine rejected: Nixon

CALGARY - Alberta's environment minister says the province is not interested in any federal handout if Ottawa rejects the proposed Frontier oilsands mine. A Reuters report, citing unidentified sources...

Feb 07, 2020

Opponents to ramp up protests against Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in B.C.

VANCOUVER - Opponents of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion say they will do whatever it takes to stop the project after suffering a devastating legal blow at the Federal Court of Appeal. Activists...

Feb 07, 2020

Sen. Lynn Beyak denies claiming to be Metis

OTTAWA - Sen. Lynn Beyak is denying she ever claimed to be Metis. She issued a two-line statement Wednesday saying the media have reported that she is Metis but she says she has never been a...

Feb 07, 2020

Father of Indigenous hockey player rejects report on racist taunts

WAYCOBAH, N.S. - An investigation into allegations that an Indigenous hockey player faced racist taunts during a recent game in Cape Breton has determined the verbal...

Feb 07, 2020

Airbnb limits young people's ability to rent properties following deadly shooting

TORONTO - Airbnb will limit young adults' ability to book some properties in Canada in a pilot project aimed at cutting down on unauthorized parties like the one where three young men were killed in T...

Feb 07, 2020

Talks with Wet'suwet'en over pipeline 'not successful,' province says

SMITHERS, B.C. - Talks that were intended to de-escalate a dispute over a natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia have failed after just two days. Hereditary chiefs of the Wet'suwe...

Feb 07, 2020

Quebec premier says returns will fly high with $30-million airship investment

MONTREAL - Quebec Premier Francois Legault is dismissing naysayers who are accusing his government of wasting $30 million on a company that wants to build giant airships ...

Feb 07, 2020

Fire keeping investigators away from train derailment in rural Saskatchewan

GUERNSEY, Sask. - The Transportation Safety Board says a fire continues to burn at the site of a train derailment in Saskatchewan and investigators can't access the site. It says one investigator...

Feb 07, 2020

Feds to fund urgent research into new coronavirus, including social impacts

OTTAWA - The Canadian Institutes of Health Research is set to release some urgent funding to study the novel coronavirus - including the fear it causes. The federal granting agency says it wants ...

Feb 07, 2020

Montreal to fully ban plastic bags by end of 2020, mayor announces

MONTREAL - Given the urgent need to reduce the city's environmental footprint, Montreal will move to fully ban the distribution of plastic bags by the end of 2020, Mayor Valerie Plante ...

Feb 07, 2020