Canada

Peter Nygard steps down from company following sex assault claims

NEW YORK - Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard is stepping down as chairman of his company following an FBI raid on his Manhattan headquarters over sex assault allegations. "Recognizing the prior...

Feb 26, 2020

Canadian Pacific obtains injunction to end Mohawk rail blockade in Kahnawake

MONTREAL - Canadian Pacific Railway obtained an injunction Tuesday aimed at ending a blockade erected more than two weeks ago in a Mohawk community south of Montreal. Coming a day after Kahnawake...

Feb 25, 2020

New presumptive case of novel coronavirus in Toronto, health officials say

TORONTO - A woman who arrived in Toronto from China last week has a presumptive case of the novel coronavirus, health officials said Sunday, days after announcing the last of three people previously d...

Feb 25, 2020

Massive renovation to Centre Block needs to find space for dozens more MPs

OTTAWA - The experts overseeing the massive restoration of Canada's largest Parliament building have to find out a way to cram more than 100 additional MPs into the House of Commons wit...

Feb 25, 2020

Privacy commissioner says RCMP ignored his investigators in complaint cases

OTTAWA - The federal privacy watchdog has accused the RCMP of ignoring his office's efforts to investigate complaints about the national police force's failure to respond to i...

Feb 25, 2020

Liberal MPs defer call for immediate blockade debate at committee

OTTAWA - Liberal MPs have temporarily thwarted an attempt by a Bloc Quebecois MP to immediately debate the "Indigenous crisis" involving rail and road blockades across the country at a Commons co...

Feb 25, 2020

Manitoba premier hints at possible carbon tax deal with federal government

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister is hinting at a potential breakthrough with the federal government on a carbon tax. Pallister says federal and provincial senior officials have been in cons...

Feb 25, 2020

Private clinics would harm 'ordinary' people using public system in B.C.: lawyer

VANCOUVER - A lawyer for the British Columbia government says private clinics would increase wait lists for "ordinary" people in the public system and especially harm those who are...

Feb 25, 2020

Sen. Lynn Beyak apologizes for racist letters, says she'll obey ethics report

OTTAWA - Sen. Lynn Beyak sought to stave off suspension from the upper chamber today, apologizing unreservedly for posting offensive letters online and pledging to do more to show her contrition. Beya...

Feb 25, 2020

3 courts, 3 rulings: Carbon tax seen differently in different courts

EDMONTON - Legal experts say rulings from provincial Appeal Courts on the federal carbon tax aren't about the tax itself, but rather the government's legal grounds for it.The Alberta Court ruled on Mo...

Feb 25, 2020