Canada

Special Canada-China parliamentary committee to hold first meeting in Ottawa

OTTAWA - A new special parliamentary committee created to examine Canada's fraught relationship with China will hold its first meeting in Ottawa. The committee's creation was the result of a...

Jan 20, 2020

Eastern Newfoundland reeling, search paused for missing man after blizzard

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Eastern Newfoundland struggled Saturday to remove record-breaking snowdrifts and searchers combed through a wooded area for a missing man following a blizzard th...

Jan 20, 2020

Armed Forces arrive in St. John's as state of emergency stretches into fourth day

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A state of emergency is stretching into its fourth day in St. John's, N.L., today as Armed Forces personnel prepare to help the city dig out from an unprecedented snowfall. Eas...

Jan 20, 2020

Trudeau to meet potential bridge-builder Pallister during cabinet retreat

WINNIPEG - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will meet today with the least hostile of conservative Prairie premiers, Manitoba's Brian Pallister. The tete-a-tete comes on the second day of a three-da...

Jan 20, 2020

McGill principal defends decision not to divest after prof's resignation

MONTREAL - The principal of McGill university is defending the institution's commitment to reducing carbon emissions after a professor resigned over its refusal to divest from the fossil fue...

Jan 20, 2020

Extradition hearing for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou begins today in Vancouver

VANCOUVER - A court hearing begins today in Vancouver over the American request to extradite an executive of the Chinese telecom giant Huawei on fraud charges. The arrest of Meng Wanzhou in 2018&...

Jan 20, 2020

Trudeau, ministers head to Winnipeg for cabinet retreat, western outreach

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is reviving his practice of holding periodic cabinet retreats outside the nation's capital - an exercise in regional outreach that his office maintains is w...

Jan 20, 2020

Trudeau meets Pallister and the Meng hearing; In The News for Jan. 20

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 Jan. 20. What we are watching in Canada ... WI...

Jan 20, 2020

Growing natural-disaster response risks dulling Army's fighting edge: Commander

OTTAWA - Canadian Army commander Lt.-Gen. Wayne Eyre is warning that calling the military out to more and more natural disasters could hurt the army's ability to train for war. The past few years...

Jan 20, 2020

Trudeau cabinet tries to focus on domestic agenda amid unforeseen emergencies

WINNIPEG - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet ministers are trying to concentrate on the Liberal government's domestic agenda and how to see it to fruition in a minority Parl...

Jan 19, 2020