Canada

Trudeau-Trump trip-ups: A brief history of bumps in the leaders' relationship

OTTAWA - The latest snafu in the relationship between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump played out on the public stage of an international summit on Wednesday. But the lead...

Greg Fry Dec 04, 2019

Quebec chief justice criticized for declaring herself 'feminist' at Bill 21 hearing

MONTREAL - Quebec's chief justice declared herself a feminist in court last week and then suggested opposition to the province's secularism law resulted from "visual allergies" to seeing wom...

Dec 04, 2019

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

OTTAWA - Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says there will be no decision made about hiking the carbon price beyond $50 a tonne for at least another two years. The Ecofiscal Commission study rel...

Dec 04, 2019

Action plan on missing, murdered Indigenous women coming by June: Bennett

OTTAWA - Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett says the federal government will release by June 2020 its plan to respond to the final report of the inquiry into missing an...

Dec 04, 2019

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

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says there will be no more free rides in the House of Commons for the Liberal government. Scheer says his Opposition intends to fight hard now that the days ...

Dec 04, 2019

Ontario not on track to achieving emissions reductions targets: auditor

TORONTO - Ontario is unlikely to meet its 2030 emissions target under its current climate change plan - and Premier Doug Ford's government knows it, the province's auditor gen...

Dec 04, 2019

Jagmeet Singh outlines NDP priorities for throne speech

OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his caucus is ready to work with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, but he should not take their support for granted. Singh says he is looking for a number of s...

Dec 04, 2019

Trudeau's plane damaged, now backup plane grounded in London, U.K.

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's bad luck with planes continues. He was forced to use a back-up aircraft Monday to ferry him to London for a NATO summit because the usual prime minis...

Dec 04, 2019

Quebec chief justice postpones speech to Jewish law society over Bill 21 concerns

MONTREAL - Quebec's chief justice, who is hearing a case seeking a suspension of the province's secularism law, will no longer be speaking to an association of Jewish lawyers in Montreal followin...

Dec 04, 2019

Grant extends reach of low cost 3D-printed hands, back braces to Canadian kids

VICTORIA - Nick Dechev says amputees randomly show up at his laboratory at the University of Victoria and ask for help. Dechev, a mechanical engineering professor and executive director of the Victori...

Dec 04, 2019