Canada

Iran attack underscores need for new air defences: Canadian Army

OTTAWA - The Canadian Army says the launching of Iranian missiles against military bases in Iraq highlights the need for a new system to defend Canadian troops against enemy air attacks from aircraft,...

Jan 08, 2020

A look at some of the Canadians who died in Iran plane crash

The federal government says at least 63 Canadians were among the 176 people who were killed when Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 crashed after takeoff near Tehran, Iran. Friends and f...

Jan 08, 2020

Iranian-Americans delayed, questioned at border, fuelling fears of profiling

WASHINGTON - North American residents of Iranian descent and their advocates were sounding the racial-profiling alarm Monday after scores of them were subjected to intensive questi...

Jan 08, 2020

Alberta senator wants prime minister and cabinet to meet in the province

OTTAWA - A senator from Alberta is inviting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to hold a cabinet meeting in the province. Doug Black says he has written a letter to Trudeau urging him to bring his cab...

Jan 08, 2020

Federal natural-disaster bills now average more than $430 million a year

Ottawa's bills for dealing with natural disasters neared half a billion dollars in two of the last three years amid a warning to Canadians that this country was one of the worst affected by climate ch...

Jan 08, 2020

Poems by man who killed Indigenous woman removed from parliamentary website

OTTAWA - Two poems written by a man who killed an Indigenous woman have been removed from the parliamentary poet laureate website. The poems by Stephen Brown included one about a sex wo...

Jan 08, 2020

Air Canada to adjust routes in response to restrictions in Persian Gulf region

TORONTO - Transport Canada says that Air Canada has complied with U.S.-led restrictions on commercial airlines operating in the Persian Gulf region, though neither the government nor the airline ...

Jan 08, 2020

In addressing Middle East tensions, Trump calls for end to Iran nuclear deal

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is calling on five of the world's most powerful nations to follow his lead and abandon their controversial 2015 agreement aimed at curbing Iran's nuclear ambitions....

Jan 08, 2020

Canadians hunker down as NATO, U.S. offer contradictory messages on Iraq

Hundreds of Canadian soldiers were hunkered down on military bases in Iraq on Monday, their missions suspended due to security concerns, as the U.S. and NATO offered contradictory messages about ...

Jan 08, 2020

63 Canadians killed in plane crash near Tehran, Ukrainian official says

SHAHEDSHAHR, Iran - Dozens of Canadians were among the 176 people killed in a plane crash just minutes after taking off from the Iranian capital's main airport, Ukraine's minister of foreign affairs s...

Jan 08, 2020