Canada

'Contradiction there:' Manitoba eyes looser holiday shopping rules

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister is considering whether to loosen a law that limits holiday store openings and says he agrees with one business owner who has complained ...

Jul 06, 2019

Former N.S. Mountie sentenced to decade in prison for cocaine theft, trafficking

HALIFAX - A judge sentenced a former high-ranking RCMP officer to 10 years in prison for stealing and selling $300,000 worth of cocaine Thursday, saying the egregious breach of tru...

Jul 06, 2019

Scheer flips pancakes, appeals for votes on Calgary Stampede circuit

CALGARY - The federal Conservative leader says he has this fall's federal election on his mind as he makes the rounds on the Calgary Stampede circuit. Andrew Scheer was flipping pancakes Saturday morn...

Jul 06, 2019

Trudeau shoots back at China's claim it is being 'naive' in courting allies

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that President Donald Trump made good on his pledge to raise the plight of the two Canadians imprisoned in China with President Xi Jinping. Tr...

Jul 06, 2019

PM defends system for appointing judges amid questions about ties to N.B. minister

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is defending the federal system for appointing judges after revelations several in New Brunswick have personal connections to Liberal cabinet minister Dominic Le...

Jul 06, 2019

Trudeau announces $1.3 billion for Montreal metro extension as election looms

MONTREAL - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau committed $1.3 billion of federal funding Thursday towards extending Montreal's metro line - a project first announced by Rene Levesque in 1979. To descri...

Jul 06, 2019

Funeral held for Canadian soldier killed in Bulgarian skydiving exercise

GATINEAU, Que. - Soldiers, friends and family are attending a military funeral in Gatineau, Que., for a Canadian soldier who died in a parachute training exercise in Bulgaria. Bombardier Patrick ...

Jul 06, 2019

Supreme Court of Canada rejects Saskatchewan hit-man murder appeal

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear the appeal of a gang leader who was behind a botched hit in which a mother of four was killed when she opened her front door. Lorry Ann Santos w...

Jul 06, 2019

Vancouver shipyard used one new coast guard vessel to repair, deliver another

OTTAWA - New documents show a Vancouver shipyard was able to deliver the first of the coast guard's three new science vessels last week only by cannibalizing parts from one of the other ships for repa...

Jul 06, 2019

Parliament has an official sergeant-at-arms, after four-year wait

OTTAWA - The federal government has officially appointed a new sergeant-at-arms for the House of Commons, four years after the appointee took on that role in an acting capacity. The Prime Mi...

Jul 06, 2019