Canada

Timeline of events in the deaths of three people in northern B.C.

Three people are dead in northern B.C. and there is a major search stretching across Western Canada for two young men police say are suspects. Here's a timeline of events: July 15 - The bodies of...

Jul 30, 2019

Quebec man credited with saving drowning eight-year-old boy in Massachusetts

MONTREAL - A Quebec tourist is being credited with saving an eight-year-old boy who was swept away by an undertow and nearly drowned at a beach in southeastern Massachusetts. The W...

Jul 30, 2019

RCMP pulls search for fugitives out of York Landing

YORK LANDING, Man. - The R-C-M-P has pulled its search for two B-C murder suspects out of the remote northern Manitoba community of York Landing. There was speculation Bryer Schmegelsky and Kam McLeod...

Jul 30, 2019 Photo courtesy Canadian Press

Statistics Canada takes second look at ethnicity question on census

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada officials estimate the number of people identifying as Jewish in the 2016 census could have been double what it was if not for a small change on the questionnaire. The numbe...

Jul 30, 2019

Tories, NDP to press Liberals on handling of China relations at meeting

OTTAWA - Conservative MPs say the federal opposition parties hope to use a possible committee investigation to get at the details of the Liberal government's China policy. Conservative critic Leo...

Jul 30, 2019

As megaproject nears completion, methylmercury concerns at Muskrat Falls linger

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The $12.7-billion Muskrat Falls hydroelectric dam in Labrador is finally nearing completion, billions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule. But as the public is off...

Jul 30, 2019

Former cabinet minister Tootoo won't seek re-election this fall in Nunavut

OTTAWA - Former Liberal cabinet minister turned Independent MP Hunter Tootoo says he is not running in this fall's election. In a statement, Tootoo says he has decided to leave public life after much ...

Jul 30, 2019

Massive security breach at Capital One exposes data of 6 million Canadians

A massive security breach at credit card giant Capital One Financial has compromised the personal data of roughly 106 million people, including six million Canadians, and left approximately ...

Jul 30, 2019

Ministers set to discuss timing of carbon tax legal challenges during meeting

SASKATOON - Attorneys general from Alberta and Ontario say they will discuss the timeline of the different legal challenges launched against the federal carbon tax when they meet in Saskatoo...

Jul 30, 2019

Latest round in northern Manitoba hunt for B.C. murder suspects proves fruitless

YORK LANDING, Man. - The chief of a remote northern Manitoba Indigenous community says a massive police manhunt there for two young British Columbia homicide suspects has ended without success, althou...

Jul 30, 2019