Canada

B.C. father accused of killing daughters denies stabbing self in throat, chest

VANCOUVER - The Crown suggested Tuesday that a Vancouver Island father accused of killing his daughters on Christmas Day in 2017 hesitated before stabbing himself in the throat. Crown attorn...

Aug 28, 2019

This time, Trudeau keeps low profile at G7 as election campaign looms

BIARRITZ, France - He may have spent the weekend an ocean away from home, rubbing elbows with world leaders during tense talks on international crises, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...

Aug 28, 2019

Hong Kong: Split emerges in Chinese-Canadian community amid protests

VANCOUVER - Images of police using rubber bullets and tear gas against protesters in Hong Kong in early June spurred Joel Wan to pick up the phone and call the United Nations human rights office from ...

Aug 28, 2019

In the news today, Aug. 28

Six stories in the news for Wednesday, Aug. 28 --- FIRST INTERIOR SHOTS OF HMS TERROR RELEASED Parks Canada has released the first pictures from inside the HMS Terror, one of the two sh...

Aug 28, 2019

'A solemn space': first interior shots of Franklin's HMS Terror released

It remains, despite nearly two centuries beneath the Arctic seas, amazingly shipshape. First pictures from inside the HMS Terror, part of the doomed Franklin Expedition, show tidy rows of crockery, ne...

Aug 28, 2019

Closing arguments in case of German tourist shot west of Calgary

CALGARY - Closing arguments are scheduled today in the trial of a youth accused of shooting a German tourist in the head on a highway west of Calgary. The teen from the Stoney Nakoda First Nation, who...

Aug 28, 2019

Cities to parties: Spend more to fill housing-plan gaps for seniors, Indigenous

OTTAWA - Canada's cities are asking federal parties to add more than $500 million a year to the national government's decade-long housing strategy. The Federation of Canadian Municipalities says the m...

Aug 28, 2019

Benjamin Tomlin, Canadian sentenced to 10 years in Cuban prison, was set up: lawyer

MONTREAL - A Canadian man sentenced to 10 years in a Cuban prison says he is innocent, and his lawyer says his client was likely set up following a night of partying...

Aug 28, 2019

'They want all that:' Girls becoming more involved in gang violence in B.C.

VANCOUVER - As gang unit officers for the Vancouver police, detectives Sandy Avelar and Anisha Parhar often pull over boys and men in flashy cars with drugs and guns in the glove compartment. But they...

Aug 28, 2019

Tory leader Scheer contradicted on abortion by Quebec lieutenant Alain Rayes

OTTAWA - Even though he has contradicted his leader publicly on the subject of abortion rights, the Conservatives' Quebec lieutenant says he and party leader Andrew Scheer have always been clear ...

Aug 27, 2019