Canada

May sees room for consensus on climate action, pharmacare in new Parliament

OTTAWA - Green Leader Elizabeth May hopes to use whatever influence her three-member caucus has to ensure bolder climate action, a pharmacare plan and a promise of lower cellphone rates make thei...

Oct 25, 2019

Groups, councillor call on Montreal to end discriminatory police checks

Montreal community groups and a local city councillor want a ban on street checks by police. The coalition of groups announced today they'll ask the City of Montreal to put a moratorium on t...

Oct 25, 2019

Activist Greta Thunberg attends 'post-election climate strike' in Vancouver

VANCOUVER - Swedish activist Greta Thunberg attended a climate rally in Vancouver on Friday when 15 young people announced their plans to sue the federal government because of the impac...

Oct 25, 2019

N.S. government to return to talks with Crowns, as controversial law paused

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's Liberal government today held off on enacting legislation that would have forced striking Crowns back to work, promising to return to the neg...

Oct 25, 2019

Quebec hopes Trump administration lawsuit doesn't force California out of carbon market

MONTREAL - The Trump administration won't slow down Quebec's progress on reducing carbon emissions, Premier Francois Legault said Wednesday following news that California is being sued for w...

Oct 25, 2019

Alberta to reduce spending by 3 per cent, but no cuts to health, education

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says his government will cut program spending by close to three per cent in Thursday's provincial budget. But Kenney, in a TV address Wednesday night, reiterate...

Oct 25, 2019

Trudeau regrets negative tone of campaign, promises co-operation ahead

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed regret Wednesday for the nastiness of the federal election campaign and vowed to find a way to work co-operatively with other parti...

Oct 25, 2019

Man guilty of attempting to murder Edmonton police officer, 4 pedestrians

EDMONTON - A man who struck a police officer with a car before stabbing him multiple times outside an Edmonton football game has been found guilty of attempted murder. Jurors have also ...

Oct 25, 2019

Power fully restored two weeks after major snowstorm hit Manitoba

WINNIPEG - Electricity is back on in all communities that lost power two weeks ago, when Manitoba was hit by a major snowstorm that brought down power poles and transmission towers. Manitoba Hydr...

Oct 25, 2019

Halifax ceremony marks 50th anniversary of Navy's worst peacetime accident

HALIFAX - Allan "Dinger" Bell has no idea how long he was in the flames that engulfed the HMCS Kootenay engine room after the destroyer was rocked by an explosion that led to the worst peacetime accid...

Oct 25, 2019