Canada

Civil service union calls on new cabinet to prioritize Phoenix deal, contract

OTTAWA - The country's largest civil-service union isn't waiting for the prime minister to give marching orders to his new cabinet, offering up its own suggestions instead of government priorities in ...

Nov 20, 2019

Reaction and quotes about the new Liberal cabinet

OTTAWA - What newsmakers said about the new federal cabinet sworn in Wednesday: "We recognize that this Parliament will be one in which collaboration, in which working with a broad range of parti...

Nov 20, 2019

The Latest: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveils members of his new cabinet

OTTAWA - The latest on the unveiling and swearing-in of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet. All times Eastern. 4:20 p.m. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the only thing on his ...

Nov 20, 2019

Attorney General Lametti swears new oath in wake of SNC-Lavalin affair

OTTAWA - The swearing-in ceremony for members of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet had a new element added Wednesday: a revamped oath for the attorney general and justice minister. David Lametti...

Nov 20, 2019

Alberta government firing election commissioner who was investigating leadership

EDMONTON - Alberta's United Conservative government is firing the province's election commissioner, but says it's not because he is investigating the party and has fined it more than $200,000. Fi...

Nov 20, 2019

B.C. politicians view supermodel's transition journey on Transgender Day

VICTORIA - Members of British Columbia's legislature marked Canada's Transgender Day of Remembrance by viewing a documentary that follows a depressed, suicidal female teenager's three-year surgic...

Nov 20, 2019

Crown seeks Supreme Court of Canada hearing in railway terror case

OTTAWA - The Crown is asking the Supreme Court of Canada to review an appeal court's decision to order a new trial for two men convicted of plotting to crash a Via Rail train. In&n...

Nov 20, 2019

Closing arguments begin in legal case over private health care in B.C.

VANCOUVER - A lawyer arguing in favour of a two-tier health-care system in British Columbia says the government can't legally justify preventing patients from paying private doctors to alleviate their...

Nov 20, 2019

Montreal honours 'hero' driver who used SUV to shield pedestrians

MONTREAL - Erick Marciano says he doesn't consider himself a hero for using his SUV to shield pedestrians from a speeding car last week in Montreal. "It was just a natural thing to do,"...

Nov 20, 2019

Trudeau pressed to ensure less restrictive assisted-dying law a priority

OTTAWA - Even before he swears in his new cabinet, Justin Trudeau is being urged to ask his new justice minister to move swiftly to make Canada's assisted-dying law less restrictive. Th...

Nov 20, 2019