Canada

UNB prof under fire for immigration views to retire, school says

FREDERICTON - A University of New Brunswick professor denounced by colleagues for promoting what they say are racist arguments about immigration has agreed to retire. The school announced today that R...

Jun 04, 2019

Scheer vows internal free-trade deal as part of vision for stronger federation

OTTAWA - If the Conservatives win the Oct. 21 federal election, Andrew Scheer says he'll convene a first-ministers' meeting within 100 days devoted to knocking down barriers to trade among Canada's pr...

Jun 04, 2019

Police forces look to take missing, murdered Indigenous women inquiry findings

OTTAWA - The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police says it is looking to help police services across Canada with recommendations from the national inquiry into missing and murdered I...

Jun 04, 2019

Number of evacuees from Pikangikum First Nation hits 1,700 as wildfire grows

PIKANGIKUM, Ont. - Evacuees from Pikangikum First Nation will be taken to host cities in two provinces on Sunday while a wildfire continues to grow near the northwestern Ontario community. T...

Jun 04, 2019

Case of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou returns to Vancouver court this week

OTTAWA - The case of Huawei senior executive Meng Wanzhou -which has drawn interest from around the world - will return to a Vancouver courtroom this week. Canada's relationship with Be...

Jun 04, 2019

Trudeau says carbon tax can help deal with extreme weather, Alberta fires

VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal carbon tax will help deal with extreme weather events such as fires in northern Alberta. Trudeau says Canadians are seeing the impact of...

Jun 04, 2019

Alberta naturopath tells trial she suggested sick boy go to emergency

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - A naturopath has testified she recommended an Alberta couple take their toddler to an emergency room before he died of bacterial meningitis. David and Collet Stephan have pleaded n...

Jun 04, 2019

Trudeau accepts inquiry finding of genocide, but says focus must be on response

VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he accepts the finding that Canada's treatment of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls amounts to genocide. Debate has erupted over the defini...

Jun 04, 2019

Trudeau pledges more funding for reproductive health services worldwide

OTTAWA - The Liberal government says it will increase Canadian funding for women's health worldwide to $1.4 billion every year starting in 2023, with half of this money dedicated t...

Jun 04, 2019

Low profile for Canada on Tiananmen anniversary amid Kovrig, Spavor jailings

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau marked Tuesday's 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre by saying he has real concerns about China's human-rights record, including the repr...

Jun 04, 2019