Canada

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

MONTREAL - Quebec Premier Francois Legault is dismissing naysayers who are accusing his government of wasting $30 million on an investment in giant blimps. Legault told report...

Feb 05, 2020

As new coronavirus cases climb, Canadians in Wuhan to be flown out Thursday

A chartered plane carrying Canadians from the centre of a virus outbreak in China is scheduled to depart Thursday. Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says the flight w...

Feb 05, 2020

People's party leader Maxime Bernier sues political pundit for defamation

A former member of Parliament and leader of a fringe federal political party is suing a prominent political commentator and strategist for defamation. Maxime Bernier alleges Warren Kinsella repeatedly...

Feb 05, 2020

Omar Khadr told to answer Utah plaintiffs' questions about his confession

TORONTO - Relatives of a slain American soldier have won a skirmish in their attempt to collect on a US$134-million wrongful-death award against former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr. In a pre-tri...

Feb 05, 2020

Crosswinds delay chartered flight evacuating Canadians stranded in Wuhan

OTTAWA - Canada's foreign affairs minister says more than 200 Canadians due to be evacuated from the Chinese city of Wuhan should continue making their way to the airport if they are already on their ...

Feb 05, 2020

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

Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante says the city will move to fully ban the sale of plastic bags by the end of 2020. Plante told a city council meeting today that the current measures that limit retai...

Feb 05, 2020

'Some people were confused' about media-licensing comment, says Guilbeault

OTTAWA - The minister responsible for overhauling Canada's broadcasting and telecommunications sectors tried to reassure Canadians Monday that the federal government is not preparing to license n...

Feb 05, 2020

Air Canada plane lands safely in Madrid after tire rupture, engine issue

An Air Canada jet landed safely in Madrid Monday after engine trouble and a blown tire forced pilots to declare an emergency shortly after takeoff. The Toronto-bound Boeing 767-300 carrying ...

Feb 05, 2020

Ontario coronavirus investigations seem to be tapering off, official says

TORONTO - The number of people being tested for the novel coronavirus in Ontario seems to be dropping as more time passes since China imposed rigid travel restrictions, the province's chief medical of...

Feb 05, 2020

Lionel Desmond offered bed on psychiatric ward, fatality inquiry told

GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - A fatality inquiry in Nova Scotia has heard that the night a mentally ill former soldier sought help at a hospital in Antigonish, N.S., there were beds available in ...

Feb 05, 2020