Canada

Right whale gives birth to first calf off the coast of Georgia: Oceana

HALIFAX - An international conservation group has announced the birth of the first North Atlantic right whale calf of the 2019-2020 calving season. Oceana says the calf was born Monday off the co...

Dec 18, 2019

Statistics Canada says annual pace of inflation climbs to 2.2 per cent

OTTAWA - The annual pace of inflation heated up in November as gasoline prices posted their first year-over-year increase since October 2018, Statistics Canada said Wednesday. The agency said the...

Dec 18, 2019

Private investigation into Sherman deaths over, but police probe continues: cops

Toronto police say a private investigation into the slayings of billionaire Barry Sherman and his wife Honey is over, but the force's own probe continues. Insp. Hank Idsinga, the head o...

Dec 18, 2019

Last GM cars roll out and watch for the 2019 newsmaker; In The News for Dec. 18

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 Dec. 18. What we are watching i...

Dec 18, 2019

Little Bay Islanders say goodbye as N.L. town resettles, but some eye return

LITTLE BAY ISLANDS, N.L. - On a clear Friday morning in mid-November, the MV Hazel McIsaac is packed with a gaggle of chatting passengers. U-Hauls and pick-up trucks are parked on the ferry's bottom d...

Dec 18, 2019

'You can call anything a national concern:' Alberta questions federal carbon tax

EDMONTON - Allowing Ottawa's carbon tax law to stand would give the federal government a tool it could use to repeatedly chip away at provincial powers, lawyers for the Alberta government ar...

Dec 18, 2019

First Nation alleges Ottawa withheld info during Trans Mountain consultation

VANCOUVER - A lawyer for a British Columbia First Nation is accusing the federal government of withholding key information about oil spills until after the latest consultation on the Trans Mountain pi...

Dec 18, 2019

Morneau set to hear from provinces pushing for more financial help

OTTAWA - The Trudeau Liberals opened the door Monday to changing the way the federal government decides how much financial help it gives cash-strapped provinces, ahead of talks among the cou...

Dec 18, 2019

What is gender-based analysis, anyway? How the policy tool is changing government

OTTAWA - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police noticed that among rank-and-file members showing an interest in promotions, fewer women than men were putting their hands up. A gender-based analys...

Dec 18, 2019

Bus with Victoria students rolled after it moved for Jeep on logging road: RCMP

VANCOUVER - A bus loaded with University of Victoria students moved over for an oncoming vehicle just as a logging road narrowed before it rolled over in September, killing two stu...

Dec 17, 2019