Canada

Police chief shares frustration about addictions resources in letter to officers

Winnipeg's police chief sent a candid internal memo to officers expressing his dissatisfaction with a lack of addictions resources as the city deals with what he calls an epidemic of violence. "I am t...

Jul 19, 2019

Dennis Oland will take time to 'mentally regroup' after acquittal: lawyer

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Dennis Oland's acquittal in the 2011 murder of his father has left many questions about what comes next for the member of one of Atlantic Canada's most prominent families following ...

Jul 19, 2019

U.S. canoeists besieged by grizzly on Northwest Territories canoe trip rescued

YELLOWKNIFE - A pair of American tourists were pinned between rushing rapids and an aggressive grizzly bear when wildlife officers arrived to rescue them from the rugged tundra of the Northwest Territ...

Jul 19, 2019

National rules needed for emotional-service animals: Rempel

OTTAWA - A Conservative MP says she would like to see national standards on the right to have emotional-service animals in public spaces after watching her husband encounter numerous barriers while&nb...

Jul 19, 2019

Younger voters mobilizing to make federal election about climate change

OTTAWA - Several hundred Canadian millennials planned to rally in at least 30 cities across the country Wednesday, demanding a federal leaders' debate on climate change. Emma Jackson, a field organize...

Jul 19, 2019

Abuse survivors await apology from Anglican Church for physical harm: Bennett

OTTAWA - The Anglican Church's recent apology for doing "spiritual harm" to Indigenous Peoples is a beginning, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett said Wednesday, but victims of s...

Jul 19, 2019

B.C. man is pleads guilty in the snake venom death of a two-year-old girl

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia man has pleaded guilty to one count of failing to provide the necessaries of life for the death by snake venom of a two-year-old girl. Alisia Adams with&n...

Jul 19, 2019

Ontario attorney general invokes PM in spat over refugee legal aid

OTTAWA - Ontario's attorney general is taking his fight for more money for refugee legal aid to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Doug Downey, who took over as Ontario's attorney general i...

Jul 19, 2019

'Smell of gunpowder:' Interviews with family of shot tourist played in court

CALGARY - The wife of a German tourist who was shot in the head while driving on an Alberta highway told police she remembers hearing a pop and then smelling the strong odour of gunpowder be...

Jul 19, 2019

'Disaster is what brings us together.' Greektown community united after tragedy

TORONTO - The doors at St. Barnabas on the Danforth are always open, but the people seeking solace inside the Anglican church the day after a deadly shooting wanted to bolt them shut. L...

Jul 19, 2019