Canada

Decision day in Alberta: Voters head to polls in provincial election

EDMONTON - Voters are heading to the polls in the Alberta election today and advance turnouts suggest it could be busy at the ballot boxes. Almost 700,000 people voted ea...

Apr 16, 2019

Alberta leaders renew attacks on final full day of election campaign

SHERWOOD PARK, Alta. - A day before Alberta voters go to the polls, United Conservative Leader Jason Kenney and the NDP's Rachel Notley traded attacks over the pipeline issue that has come to define t...

Apr 15, 2019

Crown wraps up closing arguments in British Columbia child bride case

CRANBROOK, B.C. - The Crown wrapped up its case Monday against a former member of a fundamentalist sect who is charged with the alleged removal of a girl from Canada in 2004 to mar...

Apr 15, 2019

Toronto archbishop laments fire ravaging Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

TORONTO - The Archbishop of Toronto said Monday the fire that heavily damaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is a tragic event that has touched people everywhere. "All around t...

Apr 15, 2019

Four dead after shooting in Penticton, B.C.; one male suspect in custody

PENTICTON, B.C. - The RCMP say a 60-year-old man is in custody after four targeted shootings in Penticton, B.C., on Monday left two men and two women dead in what a senior police officer des...

Apr 15, 2019

Judge sends Canadian to US prison for risky tunnel scheme

DETROIT - A Canadian cab driver who made extra money by steering desperate immigrants to a railroad tunnel under the Detroit River was sentenced Monday to 16 months in a U.S. prison. Juan Garcia-Jimen...

Apr 15, 2019

Montreal mayor, opposition leader unite to denounce Quebec's secularism bill

MONTREAL - Elected officials at Montreal's city hall are speaking with one voice against Quebec's proposed secularism bill. Mayor Valerie Plante and opposition leader Lionel Perez presented a bipartis...

Apr 15, 2019

Supreme Court of Canada's Clement Gascon stepping down for family reasons

OTTAWA - Supreme Court Justice Clement Gascon is retiring in September after five years on the high court. The court says Gascon, 58, is stepping down for personal and family reasons. Chief ...

Apr 15, 2019

Alberta's Notley talks pipelines, energy on last day of election campaign

CALGARY - Alberta's NDP leader spent the final day of the provincial election campaign casting herself as the best person to get the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion past the finish line. Rachel...

Apr 15, 2019

Burkina Faso minister says missing Quebec woman is alive, removed from territory

MONTREAL - A Canadian woman and her Italian companion who have been missing in West Africa since last December are alive but no longer in the country, a senior minister with Burkina Faso's g...

Apr 15, 2019