Canada

'A lot safer place:' Calgary university uses AI to monitor threats

CALGARY - A post-secondary school in southern Alberta is turning to artificial intelligence to make its buildings safer and to allow security officers to catch criminals in th...

May 14, 2019

Mark Norman gets House of Commons apology for impact of failed prosecution

OTTAWA - The House of Commons is apologizing to Vice-Admiral Mark Norman for what he had to endure while facing criminal breach-of-trust charges. Conservative MP Lisa Raitt got unanimous consent for t...

May 14, 2019

Famed UFO researcher Stanton Friedman dead after half century of lectures

FREDERICTON - Stanton T. Friedman, nuclear physicist, lecturer and world-renowned devotee of extraterrestrial existence, has died at the age of 84. The famed UFO researcher died Monday at To...

May 14, 2019

Montreal's tam-tams could be 40 years old, but origin remains contested

MONTREAL - Every Sunday afternoon from spring through fall, hundreds of people gather on the slopes of Mount Royal for the tam-tams, a loosely organized weekly festival of drumming, dancing, and ...

May 14, 2019

Eastern Ontario communities reeling as Ottawa River hits historic high

OTTAWA - Lynne Lavictoire wants to go home. The only way she can get anywhere near it is by boat. For the time being, she's set up at a hotel where she is praying her home in La Passe, Ont. ...

May 14, 2019

Liberals push Tories to show climate-policy hand with climate-change motion

OTTAWA - Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is pushing Parliament to declare that Canada is in a "climate change emergency." Her new motion, which is to be debated Thursday, asks MPs to ...

May 14, 2019

Freeland to meet Lighthizer in Washington to push for tariff removal

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is bound for Washington to meet with Trump trade czar Robert Lighthizer in a renewed push to get punitive steel and aluminum tariffs lifted. The mee...

May 14, 2019

Mother of child who died angry anti-vaccine page used girl's image on Facebook

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The mother of a young Newfoundland girl who died last summer is furious her daughter's altered image was used online as part of an anti-vaccination campaign...

May 14, 2019

Mother, son in hospital after allegedly being hit by dad's vehicle

BRAMPTON, Ont. - A man has been charged with impaired driving after he allegedly ran over his wife and seven-year-old son, who remains in hospital in life-threatening condition. Peel Regional Pol...

May 14, 2019

The arrests of two men in Richmond Hill, Ont., not related to national security: Goodale

RICHMOND HILL, Ont. - Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says the arrests of two men in Ontario charged with possession of an explosive device is not related to national security. The comment came&n...

May 14, 2019