Canada

Prospect of breakdancing becoming Olympic sport draws mixed reactions

TORONTO - Canadian breakdancers are expressing mixed feelings about the danceform moving closer to becoming an Olympic sport - with some enthusiastic about the possibility and others concern...

Jun 27, 2019

Plastics forks at Trudeau lunch a sign of hypocrisy: Conservatives

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives are calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a hypocrite over plastic cutlery that was available at a lunch meeting he held with youth activists in his Montreal ri...

Jun 27, 2019

A quick look at a some of the new appointees to the Order of Canada

OTTAWA - On Thursday, Rideau Hall unveiled a list of 83 new appointees to the Order of Canada. Here are short profiles of a few who are being given one of the country's highest honours....

Jun 27, 2019

New Ukraine president, and former actor, to meet Trudeau in Toronto

OTTAWA - Ukraine's new president will visit Toronto next week for a major international conference on his country's future that Canada is hosting, and where he will meet Prime Minister ...

Jun 27, 2019

'He's my son: Accused mother cries at trial over boy who died of meningitis

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - The mother of a toddler who died of bacterial meningitis broke down several times Tuesday as she testified at her trial that she is still haunted by her boy's death. Coll...

Jun 27, 2019

David Saint-Jacques doing well after space flight: Canadian Space Agency

MONTREAL - Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques is doing well as he continues his long journey home after a six-month stint aboard the International Space Station, the Canadian Space Agency sai...

Jun 27, 2019

Ottawa sets up secretariat to root out racism in federal institutions, programs

OTTAWA - The federal government is setting up a secretariat to root out systemic racism and discrimination within federal institutions, programs and services. The secretariat is part of a $45-million ...

Jun 27, 2019

Canada urged to take international legal action on Rohingya genocide

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government is facing mounting pressure from across the country to take more international action to hold Myanmar to account for the genocide of the Rohingya people. Thirty-fo...

Jun 27, 2019

Licence revoked for doc who used own sperm to artificially inseminate patients

TORONTO - An Ottawa fertility doctor who used his own sperm as well as that of the wrong donors to artificially inseminate several women caused "irreparable damage" that will span gener...

Jun 27, 2019

Feds sign historic self-government agreements with three Metis nations

OTTAWA - The federal government has signed historic self-government agreements with the Metis nations of Alberta, Ontario and Saskatchewan. The agreements affirm the Metis right of self-government and...

Jun 27, 2019