Canada

Bryan Brulotte launches effort Monday to win Conservative leadership

OTTAWA - A long-time conservative businessman officially kick starts a run for leadership of the federal Conservative party on Monday. Bryan Brulotte is rolling out ads, a social media campaign and an...

Jan 05, 2020

Current Canadian military and police missions in the Middle East

OTTAWA - As experts warn that Iran might retaliate violently after the United States killed its military leader Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad, here is a list of Canadian deployments in the Middle East, ...

Jan 05, 2020

Killing of Iranian general sparks concerns for safety of Canadian troops

OTTAWA - The safety of Canadians in the Middle East is the government's "paramount concern" following the death of a top Iranian general in an American airstrike, Foreign Affairs Minist...

Jan 05, 2020

Canadian aid worker Peter Dalglish set to appeal child sex conviction in Nepal

TORONTO - A prominent Canadian aid worker convicted of sexually assaulting two children in Nepal is set to argue he was the victim of a police conspiracy and unfair trial. In legal materials ahead of ...

Jan 05, 2020

China-Canada relations hang in the balance as Meng extradition case to heat up

VANCOUVER - The international spotlight will be turned on British Columbia's Supreme Court this month as Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou's extradition hearing is set to begin, more than a year...

Jan 05, 2020

Mounties defend social-media profiling after assembling portrait of activist

OTTAWA - The RCMP is defending its practice of profiling people by scouring their social-media postings, saying the police force lawfully obtains information with the aim of protecting Canad...

Jan 04, 2020

Fuel spill at Montreal's Trudeau airport as refuelling workers' strike continues

MONTREAL - Aircraft refuelling workers with Swissport Canada remained off the job Saturday as a strike that began earlier in the week continued. The company has been maintaining refuelling s...

Jan 04, 2020

NATO suspends training mission in Iraq citing security

BRUSSELS - NATO says it has suspended a training mission for soldiers in the Iraqi army in the wake of the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. The military alliance said in a statement Saturd...

Jan 04, 2020

House values drop 11 per cent in Vancouver, stabilize or rise elsewhere in B.C.

VANCOUVER - Housing assessments are in the mail for nearly two million homeowners in British Columbia, but those in Vancouver may have already searched their properties online to learn that values hav...

Jan 04, 2020

CP NewsAlert: Amber Alert cancelled, N.L. boy found safe, father charged

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Police say a 12-year-old boy in western Newfoundland who was the subject of an Amber Alert has been found safe and his father has been arrested. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary ...

Jan 04, 2020