Canada

Desmond fatality inquiry begins in Nova Scotia two years after suicide, murders

GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - More than two years after former Canadian soldier Lionel Desmond killed his mother, wife and daughter before taking his own life, a provincial fatality inquiry ...

May 23, 2019

Pipeline protester chimes in on prime minister's fundraising speech

VANCOUVER - An Indigenous protester opposed to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion interrupted a speech by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a Liberal fundraiser on Wednesday. Will George of the Tsle...

May 23, 2019

In the news today, May 23

Four stories in the news for Thursday, May 23 --- TRUDEAU TO EXONERATE CHIEF POUNDMAKER Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to visit a Saskatchewan First Nation today to exonerate a chief ...

May 23, 2019

Clean energy one of Canada's fastest growing industries

OTTAWA - Canada's clean-energy sector says it's growing faster than the economy as a whole and is rivalling some better-known industries for jobs. Clean Energy Canada is releasing a study today it com...

May 23, 2019

Trudeau in Saskatchewan to exonerate Chief Poundmaker of treason

CUT KNIFE, Sask. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to visit a Saskatchewan First Nation today to exonerate a chief unjustly convicted of treason more than 130 years ago. Trudeau is to vindi...

May 23, 2019

Parties shop for housing ideas for platforms with issue high on voters' lists

OTTAWA - Federal parties are preparing to chase voters with ideas for dealing with what a new survey suggests is a major concern across the country: Housing affordability. The ideas being shopped...

May 23, 2019

Futurist Martine Rothblatt sees a day when human and machine become one

MONTREAL - It's reasonable to expect that in 50 years, humans will build their own identities the way computers download software, says futurist Martine Rothblatt. By that time, she predicts, we ...

May 23, 2019

Growing wildfire prompts evacuation of High Level, Alta.

HIGH LEVEL, Alta. - A northern Alberta town and a nearby First Nation are being evacuated due to the threat of an encroaching wildfire. Thousands of people are being told to leave High Level, as ...

May 22, 2019

Alberta throne speech followed by bill to repeal provincial carbon tax

EDMONTON - The new Alberta government has set its first legislature sitting in motion with a throne speech followed immediately by a bill to repeal the provincial carbon tax. Lt.-Gov. Lois M...

May 22, 2019

Canada stripping citizenship from Chinese man over alleged marriage fraud

OTTAWA - The federal government is taking the relatively rare step of revoking Canadian citizenship from a Chinese man because he allegedly got it through a bogus ma...

May 22, 2019