Canada

Shooting survivor quits panel over 'timid' Liberal record on assault-style guns

OTTAWA - Mass-shooting survivor Nathalie Provost has quit the federal firearms advisory committee in frustration, saying she is "extremely disappointed" with the Liberal government's failure...

Jul 17, 2019

Police chief shares frustration about addictions resources in letter to officers

WINNIPEG - The chief of police in Winnipeg says he sent an internal memo to officers to share his frustration about a lack of addictions resources as the city deals with what he calls an epidemic of v...

Jul 17, 2019

National framework needed for emotional-service animals: Rempel

OTTAWA - A Conservative MP says she would like to see national standards on the use of emotional service animals in public spaces after watching her husband encounter numerous barriers while ...

Jul 17, 2019

Mercury tops out on top of the world: Alert in Nunavut warmer than Victoria

Weather watchers are focused on the world's most northerly community which has been in the middle of a record-breaking heat wave. "It's really quite spectacular," said David Phillips, Environment...

Jul 17, 2019

Abuse survivors await apology from Anglican Church for physical harm: Bennett

OTTAWA - Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett says the Anglican Church's recent apology for "spiritual harm" it has done to Indigenous Peoples is a beginning. But she says survivors of ...

Jul 17, 2019

Younger voters mobilizing to make federal election about climate change

OTTAWA - Several hundred Canadian millennials plan to rally in at least 30 cities across the country today, demanding a federal leaders' debate on climate change. Emma Jackson, a field organizer with ...

Jul 17, 2019

U.S. canoeists besieged by grizzly on Northwest Territories canoe trip rescued

YELLOWKNIFE - Mounties say a pair of American travellers had to rescued from the Northwest Territories wilderness after a grizzly bear destroyed their canoe. RCMP say they got...

Jul 17, 2019

Toronto man who lost family in Ethiopian plane crash testifies at US Congress

A Toronto man who lost his family in the crash of a Boeing 737 Max jet in Ethiopia called Wednesday for a stronger aircraft approval process in the U.S. and said more people would die if that typ...

Jul 17, 2019

Interviews with family of highway shooting victim heard in Calgary court

CALGARY - The trial of an Alberta youth accused of firing a gun at a German tourist on a highway west of Calgary is having to rely on police interviews done with the family after he was shot...

Jul 17, 2019

'Told to shoot:' Trial begins for Alberta youth in shooting of German tourist

CALGARY - There was conflicting testimony in court Monday about whether a youth charged in the shooting of a German tourist on an Alberta highway may have acted on his own or was ordered to ...

Jul 17, 2019