Canada

Champagne hopeful about UN Security Council bid despite stiff competition

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says he's "cautiously optimistic" about Canada's chances of winning a seat on the United Nations Security Council this year as the governm...

Jan 24, 2020

Union fined for violating court order in Regina refinery labour dispute

REGINA - A judge has fined a union that represents more than 700 workers at a Saskatchewan oil refinery $100,000 for violating a court order that set limits on picketing durin...

Jan 24, 2020

B.C. privacy commissioner suggests media civility for Prince Harry and Meghan

VICTORIA - Media outlets in Canada should practise civility and self-regulation in respecting the privacy rights of Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, says British Columbia's pr...

Jan 24, 2020

Ottawa pledges to match funds raised for families of Iran plane crash victims

TORONTO - The federal government promised Wednesday to match all contributions to a fundraising campaign that aims to provide financial relief for the families of the 57 ...

Jan 24, 2020

Police resume search for 5 snowmobilers from France missing in Quebec

ST-HENRI-DE-TAILLON, Que. - Quebec provincial police have resumed a search effort for five missing snowmobilers from France who disappeared in frigid waters while riding off-trail in the pro...

Jan 24, 2020

Former soldier, alleged neo-Nazi Patrik Mathews denied bail in U.S.

GREENBELT, Md. - A former Canadian army reservist and his two American cohorts, all of them tied to a white-supremacy group with growing notoriety in the United States, remained behind bars Wednesday&...

Jan 24, 2020

Feds, Ontario sign funding deal for French-language university in Toronto

OTTAWA - The federal and Ontario governments have reached a deal on funding a new French-language university in Toronto. An agreement signed Wednesday says the two will spend $126 million on the proje...

Jan 24, 2020

Canadian public health agencies ramping up preparations in response to new virus

Canadian public health agencies are ramping up preparations to deal with a new virus that has infected hundreds of people in China and killed at least 17. Authorities in several countri...

Jan 24, 2020

Memo to Trudeau prods Liberals to look at reviving vice-regal appointments board

OTTAWA - Senior officials advising Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have pressed him gently to rethink how the Liberals have been making vice-regal appointments. Under the Conservatives, there had been&n...

Jan 24, 2020

Decision to bow out of leadership race weeks in the making: Poilievre

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre says weeks of uncertainty about whether he actually wanted to enter the party's leadership race came to a head as deadlines to sign contracts loomed. He ...

Jan 24, 2020