Canada

New immigration pilot will offer residency to some migrant farm-workers

OTTAWA - A new three-year immigration experiment that will give migrant workers a path to permanent residency in Canada is getting a thumbs-up from industry but a thumbs-down from migra...

Jul 14, 2019

Trudeau visits Alberta pipeline site, says national unity is not under threat

EDMONTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is dismissing claims by conservative politicians that national unity is under threat. The Liberal leader says conservative politicians are playi...

Jul 14, 2019

Concerns mount over 'criminalization' of detained migrants in Canada

OTTAWA - The Canada Border Services Agency will soon force all border-security officers working with detained migrants to wear defensive gear, drawing widespread concern over a perceived "criminalizat...

Jul 14, 2019

Third horse dies at Stampede chuckwagon races; driver fined, disqualified

CALGARY - A chuckwagon driver has been barred indefinitely from competing at the Calgary Stampede after a collision caused a horse's death. "We live and work as a family committed to th...

Jul 14, 2019

Gasoline companies to speak at public inquiry into B.C. pump prices Wednesday

VANCOUVER - An industry expert says a public inquiry into British Columbia's record-breaking gasoline prices may increase the public's understanding of a murky market but the provincial...

Jul 14, 2019

One of three entangled North Atlantic right whales may be on its way to freedom

Efforts continued Friday to free three entangled right whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, after some limited success freeing one of the endangered marine mammals on Thursday. The Department of Fisher...

Jul 14, 2019

Assoun murder case: RCMP suppressed, erased evidence of other suspects

HALIFAX - The RCMP chose not to disclose an investigator's theories about other suspects to a wrongfully convicted Halifax man fighting to prove he was&nbs...

Jul 14, 2019

Neil Bantleman returns to Canada after years in Indonesian prison

A Canadian school teacher who spent the past five years in an Indonesian prison on child sex abuse charges he's long denied said Thursday that he had returned to Canada after being granted clemency. &...

Jul 13, 2019

Trudeau Liberals pledge $150M toward big-data cancer research initiative

OTTAWA - Months after first promising money to a cancer research network bearing Terry Fox's name, the federal health minister touted the spending at an event Thursday. The infusion $150 million ...

Jul 13, 2019

Controversial Chateau Laurier expansion not good enough, McKenna says

OTTAWA - Environment Minister Catherine McKenna wants the owners of the iconic Chateau Laurier by Parliament Hill to come up with another plan for an addition to the historic hotel even after Ottawa's...

Jul 13, 2019