Canada

Students to sing national anthem in Ojibwa at Winnipeg Jets hockey game

WINNIPEG - The national anthem before this Friday's NHL game in Winnipeg won't quite sound the way it usually does. A group of students from the city's Riverbend Community School are set to perfo...

Jan 15, 2020

Feds working on new policies to stop illegal shipments of garbage

OTTAWA - The federal government expects to make some changes this year to keep Canada's garbage from illegally ending up on foreign shores, after needing to bring dozens of shipping containers of rott...

Jan 15, 2020

Andrew Weaver leaves B.C. Greens to sit as Independent, cites family health

VICTORIA - Andrew Weaver is leaving British Columbia's Green party to sit as an Independent. The former party leader says in a news release that he will continue to sit as the legislature member ...

Jan 15, 2020

TSB chair says agency wants answers in deadly Ukraine airline crash

OTTAWA - Canadian air-crash investigators are being given access to the wreckage and have been tapped to help unlock the contents of the data recorders from a Ukraine International Airlines plane down...

Jan 15, 2020

Nuclear alert investigation won't be long and drawn out, minister says

TORONTO - An investigation into a mistaken alert warning of an incident at the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station will be completed fairly quickly, Ontario's solicitor general said Monday. Sylvia Jo...

Jan 15, 2020

Competition watchdog probes complaint about political parties' data use

OTTAWA - Canada's competition watchdog is looking into a complaint about the data-harvesting practices of the main federal political parties. In its complaint to the commissioner of competition, ...

Jan 15, 2020

Supreme Court to hear B.C. case attempting to halt Trans Mountain expansion

OTTAWA - Canada's high court will hear arguments Thursday on whether British Columbia can stop Alberta from shipping heavy oil through the Trans Mountain pipeline without a permit. B.C.'s NDP governme...

Jan 15, 2020

Man convicted of sexually abusing 18 boys over three decades released on parole

The man at the heart of the Maple Leaf Gardens sexual abuse scandal has been released on parole. Gordon Stuckless's lawyer confirms his client was released to a halfway house in Hamilton in December. ...

Jan 15, 2020

Iranian president threatens Europe over nuclear deal ahead of London meeting

LONDON - Iran's president levelled threats today against Europe in response to the continent's new crackdown on his country's violations of their nuclear deal - a move Canada is also support...

Jan 15, 2020

Morneau says environment, protecting economy to be key focus of 2020 budget

TORONTO - The federal Liberals' first budget of their minority mandate will put a heavy focus on the environment, which Finance Minister Bill Morneau says should get the opposition support he nee...

Jan 15, 2020