Canada

Meng Wanzhou wins right to more documents involving arrest at Vancouver airport

VANCOUVER - Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou has won an application for more documents to be disclosed as she alleges she faced an abuse of process during her arrest at Vancouver's airport last...

Dec 12, 2019

Manitoba likely to intervene in court fight over Quebec law on religious symbols

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister says his government will likely intervene in a future court battle over Quebec's secularism law. In his annual state of the province speech, Pallister ...

Dec 12, 2019

Andrew Scheer is resigning as Conservative leader. Here's what happens next.

OTTAWA - Now that Andrew Scheer has revealed his decision to resign as Conservative leader, the party will start getting ready for the race to replace him. "They will move as fast as reasonably possib...

Dec 12, 2019

Millions in Bebawi's accounts were bonuses authorized by SNC bosses: defence

MONTREAL - Millions of dollars that ended up in the accounts of a former SNC-Lavalin executive on trial for fraud and corruption were legitimate bonuses authorized by the company's president, the defe...

Dec 12, 2019

NewsAlert: No suspension of Bill 21: Appeal Court

MONTREAL - The Quebec Court of Appeal has rejected a request to suspend the central elements of the province's secularism law. A national Muslim organization, a civil liberties group and a u...

Dec 12, 2019

A timeline of Andrew Scheer's political career

OTTAWA - Andrew Scheer has announced he will resign as Conservative leader as soon as a replacement is chosen. Here's a brief timeline of his career on Parliament Hill: June 28, 2004: Scheer...

Dec 12, 2019

Crews still battling fire from crude oil train derailment in central Saskatchewan

LANIGAN, Sask. - Saskatchewan's public safety agency says crews are working in frigid temperatures as they continue to battle a fire that started when a freight train carrying...

Dec 12, 2019

Tax cuts, flood fight and cost-control on Manitoba premier's agenda

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister - a man not known for shying away from a scrap - is promising an even "bolder" approach in 2020 with his Progressive Conservative govern...

Dec 12, 2019

Andrew Scheer resigns as Conservative leader

Andrew Scheer says he is stepping down as Conservative leader as soon as a successor can be chosen.Scheer addressed the House of Commons briefly at about noon Eastern time, saying leading his party ha...

Dec 12, 2019 (File photo/The Canadian Press)

Taxpayers' watchdog launches probe of child benefit rules, program

OTTAWA - The Liberal government's signature child benefit will undergo a critical review by a federal watchdog amid concerns that eligibility rules that can be "stringent to a fault" are pre...

Dec 12, 2019