Canada

Canadian aid worker Peter Dalglish set to appeal child sex conviction in Nepal

TORONTO - A prominent Canadian aid worker convicted of sexually assaulting two children in Nepal is set to argue he was the victim of a police conspiracy and unfair trial. In legal materials ahead of ...

Jan 05, 2020

China-Canada relations hang in the balance as Meng extradition case to heat up

VANCOUVER - The international spotlight will be turned on British Columbia's Supreme Court this month as Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou's extradition hearing is set to begin, more than a year...

Jan 05, 2020

Mounties defend social-media profiling after assembling portrait of activist

OTTAWA - The RCMP is defending its practice of profiling people by scouring their social-media postings, saying the police force lawfully obtains information with the aim of protecting Canad...

Jan 04, 2020

Fuel spill at Montreal's Trudeau airport as refuelling workers' strike continues

MONTREAL - Aircraft refuelling workers with Swissport Canada remained off the job Saturday as a strike that began earlier in the week continued. The company has been maintaining refuelling s...

Jan 04, 2020

NATO suspends training mission in Iraq citing security

BRUSSELS - NATO says it has suspended a training mission for soldiers in the Iraqi army in the wake of the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. The military alliance said in a statement Saturd...

Jan 04, 2020

House values drop 11 per cent in Vancouver, stabilize or rise elsewhere in B.C.

VANCOUVER - Housing assessments are in the mail for nearly two million homeowners in British Columbia, but those in Vancouver may have already searched their properties online to learn that values hav...

Jan 04, 2020

CP NewsAlert: Amber Alert cancelled, N.L. boy found safe, father charged

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Police say a 12-year-old boy in western Newfoundland who was the subject of an Amber Alert has been found safe and his father has been arrested. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary ...

Jan 04, 2020

'Open wound:' Talk by poet who worked with Indigenous woman's killer to go ahead

REGINA - The University of Regina is being urged to cancel a lecture by a celebrated Canadian poet who has worked with an Indigenous woman's killer, but the school says doing so would go aga...

Jan 04, 2020

Montreal aircraft refuellers sit down with mediators as strike hits third day

The union representing employees who refuel the planes at two Montreal airports met with mediators Thursday as their strike dragged into its third day. Union representatives sat down with mediato...

Jan 04, 2020

Alberta reports first severe vaping-related lung illness to Public Health Agency

EDMONTON - Alberta has reported its first case of a severe vaping-related lung illness after treating a patient in hospital who was having difficulty breathing. Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta's chief medi...

Jan 04, 2020