Canada

Man in custody after police find four bodies inside Markham, Ont., home

MARKHAM, Ont. - A man is in custody after police found four bodies inside a home north of Toronto on Sunday afternoon, officers announced as they combed the house for evidence and reassured neighbours...

Jul 30, 2019

'Fearsome-looking animal' discovered at Burgess Shale in B.C. national park

Researchers at the Royal Ontario Museum and University of Toronto have uncovered fossils of a large predatory species in 506 million-year-old rocks in the Canadian Rockies in British Columbia. The spe...

Jul 30, 2019

B.C. murder suspect's father reveals details of troubled life in book

VANCOUVER - The father of a British Columbia murder suspect has written a book that sheds new light on his mental health, explains harassment convictions involving his ex-wife and provides greater ins...

Jul 30, 2019

New York officials tour Quebec Indigenous communities ahead of possible hydro deal

MONTREAL - Officials from New York City have been visiting Quebec's north to learn more about the impact a possible hydro power deal with the provincial utility would have on Indigenous communiti...

Jul 30, 2019

Quebec environmental activists adopt civil disobedience to get climate action

MONTREAL - Environmental activists in Quebec are turning towards civil disobedience as a way of pressuring politicians to do more to fight climate change. They are part of a global movement of activis...

Jul 30, 2019

No decision on Huawei and 5G before fall federal election call: Goodale

OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says Canadians will have to wait until after this fall's federal election to find out whether Chinese tech giant Huawei can provide equipment for the coun...

Jul 30, 2019

Calgary police clear border service officers in Nigerian deportee's death

Calgary police say Canada Border Services Agency officers are not to blame for the death of a Nigerian man during his deportation last year. The passenger on a Calgary-Amsterdam flight ...

Jul 30, 2019

Friends, co-workers mourn 4 members of same family found dead in Markham, Ont.

MARKHAM, Ont. - Friends and co-workers have identified the victims of a quadruple homicide in Markham, Ont., as four members of the same family. An online fundraiser seeking to raise money for funeral...

Jul 30, 2019

Timeline of events in the deaths of three people in northern B.C.

Three people are dead in northern B.C. and there is a major search stretching across Western Canada for two young men police say are suspects. Here's a timeline of events: July 15 - The bodies of...

Jul 30, 2019

Quebec man credited with saving drowning eight-year-old boy in Massachusetts

MONTREAL - A Quebec tourist is being credited with saving an eight-year-old boy who was swept away by an undertow and nearly drowned at a beach in southeastern Massachusetts. The W...

Jul 30, 2019