Canada

Big oil, big banks and environment leaders link up to solve climate crisis

OTTAWA - In a courtroom in British Columbia Monday, Indigenous communities were arguing the federal government overstepped in approving the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and that it has to be stop...

Dec 19, 2019

Northern Indigenous leaders meet with banks over investment in Arctic energy

TORONTO - First Nations leaders from Yukon are meeting with bankers in Toronto this week to try to persuade them not to invest in energy development on the range of a vital caribou herd. "We are ...

Dec 19, 2019

PM asks U.S. not to sign final trade deal with China until Canadians released

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government has asked the United States not to sign any final trade agreement with China until two Canadians detained in China have been releas...

Dec 19, 2019

Ontario signs on to housing help from the federal Liberal government

OTTAWA - The federal government has signed the first of what it hopes will be 13 funding agreements for a new rent supplement for low-income households. The announcement today on the $1.4-billion...

Dec 19, 2019

Quebec's Chantier Davie only shipyard to qualify for icebreaker work: Feds

OTTAWA - Quebec's Chantier Davie shipyard is on track to win potentially billions of dollars in federal work after the Liberal government announced this morning that it was the only yard to qualify&nb...

Dec 19, 2019

'Looking back, I can say I tried' Trauma and healing 10 years after Afghan blast

The shock waves of the flesh-ripping, metal-twisting blast that devastated so many Canadian lives on a quiet, rural road in southern Afghanistan 10 years ago still ripple with a force that's palp...

Dec 19, 2019

Supreme Court ruling means children of Russian spies are Canadian citizens

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has decided the Toronto-born sons of Russian spies are actually Canadian citizens. The high court decision today upholds a Federal Court of Appeal ruling...

Dec 19, 2019

Climate change chosen as Canadian Press News Story of the Year for 2019

OTTAWA - In late September, hundreds of thousands of Canadians took to the streets across the country to demand more from their governments on climate change. It was one of the largest mass prote...

Dec 19, 2019

Three former St. Michael's students to be sentenced in sex assault case

TORONTO - Three former students of an all-boys Catholic school in Toronto are expected to be sentenced today for their roles in an assault and two sexual assaults on campus. Court has heard that the t...

Dec 19, 2019

Supreme Court to rule on Super Bowl TV ads, spies in setting review principles

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada is expected to set down legal principles today that help settle disparate feuds over Super Bowl TV commercials and whether the sons of Russian spies...

Dec 19, 2019