Canada

Advocates see prison bill as way to meet calls of Indigenous women inquiry

OTTAWA - The Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies says proposed changes to a bill that aims to end solitary confinement in prisons would help address many recommendations fro...

Jun 05, 2019

Canada needs to triple ocean protection to protect habitats: report

An environmental group says Canada needs to up its game on protecting its oceans. The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society says in a report that while there has been progress in recent years, re...

Jun 05, 2019

Parents on trial: Witness says she told mother to take sick child to hospital

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - A friend of an Alberta woman has testified that she advised her to get a medical opinion the day before the woman's 19-month-old son stopped breathing and later died of meningitis....

Jun 05, 2019

Improving Canada's recycling output will take 'radical change': report

OTTAWA - An analysis of Canada's plastic industry shows the industry producing plastic dwarfs the industry trying to recycle it. The report, completed by consulting firms Deloitte and ChemInfo Se...

Jun 05, 2019

Killer of Calgary Stampeder to learn how long he must wait to seek parole

CALGARY - The killer of a Calgary Stampeders football player is to find out today how long he must wait before he can seek parole. A judge found Nelson Lugela guilty earlier this y...

Jun 05, 2019

Sentencing decision for Calgary couple convicted in toddler's infection death

CALGARY - A Calgary mother and father convicted in the death of their 14-month-old son are to learn their sentences today. A jury found Jennifer and Jeromie Clark guilty last fall of criminal neg...

Jun 05, 2019

Canada announces new funding model to support women's equality globally

VANCOUVER - Canada's minister of gender equality has announced a new initiative aimed at creating a sustainable model to fund women's rights organizations in developing countr...

Jun 04, 2019

Education of Nunavut high school students, adult learners found wanting: auditor

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut is failing to prepare its high school and mature students for further education or for the working world, says a highly critical report from the federal auditor general...

Jun 04, 2019

Canadian veterans prepare to return to Juno Beach for 75th anniversary of D-Day

OTTAWA - Albert Roy was a fresh-faced 20-year-old from St. Jean Baptiste, Man., when Canadian, American and British troops stormed ashore on D-Day to begin the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi c...

Jun 04, 2019

Alberta makes it official: Bill passed and proclaimed to kill carbon tax

EDMONTON - Alberta's consumer carbon tax is now officially gone. Members of the legislature voted last night to pass the bill that repeals the tax, and it was signed into law by Lt.-Gov. Lois Mit...

Jun 04, 2019