Canada

B.C. treaty commissioner expects UNDRIP bill to speed treaty talks, more deals

VICTORIA - The often bumpy and slow path toward treaty making in British Columbia has a new tool that can help glide over major obstacles and potentially help produce more than three dozen agreem...

Dec 07, 2019

Inuit sharing ancient knowledge of ice, sea and land with social media app Siku

HALIFAX - A social media app geared towards the outdoor lives of Inuit launched Wednesday with features that tie traditional knowledge to smartphone technology. The Siku app and web platform...

Dec 06, 2019

Wilkinson says carbon price hikes won't be decided until 2022

GATINEAU, Que. - The federal Liberals will not make a decision about hiking the carbon price beyond $50 a tonne for at least another two years, Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says. Wilkinson&...

Dec 06, 2019

Feds vow to ban guns similar to one used in Ecole Polytechnique shooting

OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says the federal government will be ready soon to produce a list of semi-automatic weapons that will be banned in Canada. His comments come the same day...

Dec 06, 2019

Ottawa's plan on missing and murdered Indigenous women due by June: Bennett

OTTAWA - The Liberal government will release its national action plan to respond to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by June 2020, say...

Dec 06, 2019

Kenney to meet Trudeau next week, discuss pipelines and equalization

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney will meet Tuesday with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa to discuss issues ranging from pipelines to equalization. Kenney says he and eight of h...

Dec 06, 2019

Scheer warns Liberals his Tories are watching as Parliament prepares to return

OTTAWA - Opposition Conservatives are looking ahead to the return of Parliament Thursday as an opportunity to change the channel after weeks of very public party in-fighting around the future of leade...

Dec 06, 2019

Crown wants murder verdict in death of toddler found outside Edmonton church

EDMONTON - A Crown prosecutor says a man should be found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of his 19-month-old son. The toddler's lifeless body was found outside an Edmonton church in 2...

Dec 06, 2019

Scheer champions energy workers, vows to never support carbon tax

OTTAWA - Andrew Scheer is doubling down on his insistence that the federal Conservative party will never support a carbon tax. The Conservative leader is proposing an amendment to the Liberals' t...

Dec 06, 2019

Group narrows search for beluga retirement site to two sites off Nova Scotia

HALIFAX - A conservation group has selected two sites in Nova Scotia where it could establish a kind of ocean retirement home for beluga whales raised in captivity. After...

Dec 06, 2019