Canada

Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques announces winners of science contest

FREDERICTON - Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques took time from his busy schedule on the International Space Station Wednesday to encourage young students to pursue science - telling the...

May 17, 2019

More people died in last summer's Montreal heat wave than initially reported

MONTREAL - Health authorities in Montreal are adding 13 more people to the list of victims of last summer's heat wave, and are urging the city to do more to diminish heat across the densely populated ...

May 17, 2019

Freeland leaves D.C. with no tariff deal, despite early optimism from U.S.

OTTAWA - Close, maybe, but no cigar. Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland came and went from Washington on Wednesday, shifting diplomatic gears and jetting to Havana on a day that saw early hope...

May 17, 2019

Data reveals scope, damage of spring floods in Quebec and New Brunswick

New data has revealed the scale and scope of this spring's devastating floods. Statistics Canada says about 17,500 homes were either hit by flooding or deemed at risk - a number that could rise h...

May 17, 2019

Canada 'encouraged' in tariff war with U.S. on metals but no solution in sight

OTTAWA - President Donald Trump's decision today to delay auto tariffs on Japan and Europe is generating fresh hope that there might be an end in sight to his punitive levies on Canadian steel and alu...

May 17, 2019

Man jailed for role in Winnipeg woman's death during botched robbery

WINNIPEG - A man has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for his role in the death of an Indigenous woman who was killed during a botched robbery. Jeanenne Fontaine, who was 29, was shot and her Winn...

May 17, 2019

Newfoundland and Labrador wakes up to rare minority government after Liberal win

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador woke up to its first minority government in nearly 50 years Friday morning, with acrimonious election night comments from party leaders leaving voters...

May 17, 2019

Asylum claims have more than tripled since 2015, Statistics Canada says

OTTAWA - New figures out this morning from the national statistics office says the number of asylum claims in Canada more than tripled between 2015 and 2018. Statistics Canada says that in 2015, the y...

May 17, 2019

Trudeau offers Canadian lumber, steel to help rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral

PARIS - Canada is offering softwood lumber and steel to help with the reconstruction of Paris's famed Notre Dame Cathedral, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday after touring the iconic m...

May 17, 2019

Decision expected today in case of child bride from Bountiful, B.C.

CRANBROOK, B.C. - The B.C. Supreme Court is expected to issue a decision today in the case of a former leader in a fundamentalist Christian sect that practises polygamy in Bountiful, B.C. James Oler i...

May 17, 2019