Canada

Cash incentives for parties could help get more women in politics: MPs

OTTAWA - A House of Commons committee says the government should offer financial incentives to political parties to nominate more women candidates to run for election. This is one of 14 reco...

Apr 12, 2019

Goodale says report on terror threats 'maligned' certain communities

OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says future reports on terrorist threats to Canada will not refer to Sikh extremism and instead use "extremists who support violent means to establis...

Apr 12, 2019

Hasn't campaigned with federal leader: NDP's Notley says her focus on Alberta

CALGARY - Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley says she hasn't campaigned with the federal party leader because her focus is on what's best for the province - including pipelines. During a campaign stop i...

Apr 12, 2019

Scheer repeats alleged libel, goads Trudeau to follow through on lawsuit threat

OTTAWA - Andrew Scheer did his level best Wednesday to provoke Prime Minister Justin Trudeau into following through on his threat to sue him over allegedly libellous criticism of the SNC-Lav...

Apr 12, 2019

Trudeau Liberals link 'reckless' Ontario budget with Scheer's Conservatives

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are attacking the Ontario Progressive Conservative government's first budget since Doug Ford was elected premier, hoping voters across the country will connect the docume...

Apr 12, 2019

In pre-budget letter, Hajdu asks Ontario to reverse student-loan changes

OTTAWA - The federal labour minister is asking the Ontario government to reverse changes to its provincial student-assistance program in a letter that serves as a pre-budget salvo against Premier...

Apr 12, 2019

Guess who's moving?Burton Cummings complained of noise from dance studio

MOOSE JAW, Sask. - A Saskatchewan fitness studio is moving after multiple noise complaints from Canadian rock legend Burton Cummings. Kyra Klassen, who owns Dance Fitness with Kyra in downtown Mo...

Apr 12, 2019

Opioid overdoses claimed more than 3,200 lives in first nine months of 2018

OTTAWA - The Public Health Agency of Canada has released new data showing that 3,286 Canadians died after apparent opioid-related overdoses between January and September last year. The data also ...

Apr 12, 2019

Montreal offers to help find new homes for carriage horses as industry ends

MONTREAL - The City of Montreal plans to work with the owners of retiring caleche horses to offer the animals a chance to live out their days in the country once the industry is&nb...

Apr 12, 2019

Thieves make off with popular tourist attraction from Peggy's Cove

PEGGY'S COVE, N.S. - One of the most-photographed Nova Scotians is missing. Shorty, a wide-eyed, five-foot-two wooden fisherman, was stolen from outside a tourist spot in Peggy's Cove, N.S.,...

Apr 12, 2019