Canada

Policing community eyes change after missing, murdered Indigenous women inquiry

OTTAWA - Melanie Morrison says her sister went missing in June 2006 - a unusual disappearance because she was a young mother. She says when their mom went to police, her sister was presumed to be "out...

Jun 06, 2019

Trudeau pushes ratification of new NAFTA despite U.S. tariff threat on Mexico

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is moving forward with ratifying the new North American trade deal despite fresh tensions between Mexico and the United States. He says Canada i...

Jun 06, 2019

China wants to fix 'serious difficulties' with Canada by meeting halfway: envoy

OTTAWA - China's ambassador to Canada says his government wants to end the countries' impasse but won't give way on two of Canada's major complaints. "Indeed, the bilateral relatio...

Jun 06, 2019

Philippines lifts Canadian travel ban but no return of ambassador yet

OTTAWA - The Philippines is slowly normalizing diplomatic relations with Canada now that the trash tiff of 2019 has come to a close. Philippine executive secretary Salvador Medialdea issued a memo to ...

Jun 06, 2019

Trudeau says carbon tax can help deal with extreme weather, Alberta fires

VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal carbon tax will help deal with weather disasters such as fires in northern Alberta. Speaking in Vancouver, Trudeau said Canadi...

Jun 06, 2019

'It's hard to think about them': Emotions run free as Canadians mark D-Day

COURSEULLES-SUR-MER, France - Joseph Edwardson couldn't hold back the tears. Exactly 75 years earlier, Edwardson and thousands of other young Canadian men had come ashore on this very beach in norther...

Jun 06, 2019

'My son's not breathing:' 911 call played at meningitis death trial

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - The father of a toddler who died of bacterial meningitis called 911 because his son wasn't breathing but initially declined an offer of an ambulance, a trial heard Tuesda...

Jun 06, 2019

Trudeau pledges more funding for reproductive health services worldwide

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made several not-too-subtle references to the American president Tuesday as he pledged to gradually increase international aid for women's health to $1.4 bi...

Jun 06, 2019

Trudeau accepts inquiry finding of genocide, but says focus must be on response

VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday he accepts the finding that Canada's treatment of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls amounts to genocide. Debate has erupted over th...

Jun 06, 2019

Victoria officials confirm kitten tossed in trash ingested methamphetamine

VICTORIA - Animal control officers in Victoria now know why a kitten had balance and other issues after being found zipped in a small bag and tossed in the trash at a mall. Ian Fraser, senior animal c...

Jun 06, 2019