Canada

MPs across party lines call for new housing subsidy to help homeless veterans

OTTAWA - A cross-party group of MPs, flanked by organizations that help veterans in need, made a plea on the eve of the 75th anniversary of D-Day for the government to end veteran homelessness and cre...

Jun 07, 2019

China-Canada differences go beyond Beijing's critical, outgoing envoy: Carr

OTTAWA - Canada's trade minister is downplaying the forthcoming departure of China's outspoken envoy to Ottawa, saying differences between the countries stretch beyond anythin...

Jun 07, 2019

Canada's emergency alert system can't measure how many phones get the notices

OTTAWA - The federal government says it can't measure how many people actually receive emergency-alert messages on their phones. The Alert Ready system is designed to notify C...

Jun 07, 2019

Senate committee says oil tanker ban off B.C. targets Alberta, divides country

OTTAWA - A Senate committee says the Trudeau government's bill to ban oil tanker traffic off British Columbia's northern coast should be scrapped because it will divide the country...

Jun 07, 2019

Record low unemployment rate in May

OTTAWA - Canada's unemployment rate hit a record low in May.The economy added 27,700 jobs last month bringing the unemployment rate to 5.4 per cent - it's lowest level since 1976.Year-over-year averag...

Jun 07, 2019

Supreme Court allows suit against St. Joseph's Oratory over abuse allegations

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has rejected a bid by Montreal's Saint Joseph's Oratory to be excluded from a sexual assault class action suit. The high court today upheld a Quebec Court of Appea...

Jun 07, 2019

Ottawa pledges to spend $15 million to restore Ontario's tree-planting program

The federal government promised Wednesday to spend $15 million over four years to save a tree-planting program in Ontario cancelled by Premier Doug Ford's government. Forests Ontario was informed in t...

Jun 07, 2019

Conservation group calls death of right whale in Gulf of St. Lawrence 'devastating'

FREDERICTON - The head of a wildlife protection group is calling news of a dead right whale in the Gulf of St. Lawrence devastating, saying the loss of even one of the whales ...

Jun 07, 2019

SNC-Lavalin delays jury decision in corruption trial until June 28

MONTREAL - SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. is pushing back its decision on whether to opt for a trial by jury or by judge alone in a corruption case that has tripped up the engineering giant and ensnared it in...

Jun 07, 2019

China 'inventing excuses' to block shipments of Canadian canola, Trudeau says

PARIS - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says China is "inventing excuses" to block imports of Canadian canola. Speaking at a press conference Friday with French President Emmanuel Macron, Trudeau u...

Jun 07, 2019