Canada

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 the amb...

Jun 05, 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. A spokesman for Public Safety Canada says the most recen...

Jun 05, 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 will divide the country, inflame separatist sentiment...

Jun 05, 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 endange...

Jun 05, 2019

'Non-trivial dose': Study tries to estimate human consumption of microplastics

New research suggests North Americans eat, drink and inhale tens of thousands of tiny plastic particles every year. University of Victoria biologist Kieran Cox, whose paper was published Wednesday, sa...

Jun 05, 2019

Canadian D-Day film footage among the best known invasion images

HALIFAX - Some of the most vivid film footage of the D-Day landings 75-years ago was shot by a Canadian military film unit using technology obtained from U.S. allies. Unlike the American and British b...

Jun 05, 2019

Killing, violence toward Indigenous women, girls 'not a relic of our past': PM

GATINEAU, Que. - Geraldine Gauthier clutched a picture of her sister, Lynn, as she heard from the federally funded commission tasked with documenting the causes of violence against Indigenous women an...

Jun 05, 2019

Trudeau arrives in United Kingdom for start of the D-Day commemorations

LONDON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in the United Kingdom with U.S. President Donald Trump, British Prime Minister Theresa May and other world leaders today to begin two days of commemorations f...

Jun 05, 2019

In the news today, June 3

Twelve stories in the news for Monday, June 3 --- CANADA SUSPENDS OPERATIONS AT EMBASSY IN VENEZUELA Canada suspended operations at its embassy in Venezuela on Sunday, saying President ...

Jun 05, 2019

In the news today, June 5

Six stories in the news for Wednesday, June 5 --- D-DAY COMMEMORATIONS BEGIN TODAY IN THE U.K. D-Day commemorations will begin today in the British port city of Portsmouth, where thousands Allied...

Jun 05, 2019