Canada

Right-wing group's brief on immigration shouldn't be played up: Legault

Quebec Premier Francois Legault says a far-right group whose opinions on a government immigration bill were published on the legislature website this week has the right to express ...

Apr 11, 2019

Feds plan to limit uses of 'neonic' pesticides, but outright ban still likely

OTTAWA - Federal scientists are finalizing restrictions on a much-used class of pesticides to try to protect bees. The recommendations could be moot in less than a year, however, if the same agen...

Apr 11, 2019

Liberals nix opposition motion for investigation into top-court selection leak

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals have used their majority on a House of Commons committee to block an opposition attempt to investigate the leak of confidential information about applicants for a se...

Apr 11, 2019

Civil-rights and legal orgs urge Trudeau to drop asylum changes

OTTAWA - A group of civil-society and legal organizations has sent a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau denouncing changes to asylum laws included in a Liberal budget bill tabled this week, ...

Apr 11, 2019

Bloc Quebecois tells Ottawa to stay out of debate over Quebec secularism bill

OTTAWA - The Bloc Quebecois is taking its defence of the provincial government's secularism bill to English Canada with a billboard along an Ottawa highway. The message in English reads, "Quebec ...

Apr 11, 2019

Lawyers seek 25 years for Montreal man in Michigan airport stabbing

DETROIT - A Montreal man convicted of stabbing a police officer at a Flint, Michigan, airport was in debt and saw the attack as a way to become a martyr while benefiting his wife and children financia...

Apr 11, 2019

Supreme Court decision could lift lid on physician billing figures in Ontario

OTTAWA - The public could soon know which Ontario doctors have billed the most to the province's health plan now that the Supreme Court has ruled on the matter. The high court says it w...

Apr 11, 2019

Women launch lawsuit in labour-inducing drug case at N.B hospital

MONCTON, N.B. - A class action has been launched against New Brunswick's largest health authority and an obstetrics nurse by women who believe the nurse improperly gave them a labour-in...

Apr 11, 2019

High court won't hear rapper's plea over his song's role in murder conviction

OTTAWA - A murderer won't get a chance to argue in the Supreme Court that his conviction should be overturned because a rap lyric he wrote was improperly allowed into evidence. The high...

Apr 11, 2019

Trapped in crate shipped from China: Hungry, resourceful cat found in B.C.

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - An orange tabby cat is likely to have used up more than a few of its nine lives during an unauthorized trip from China to British Columbia. The North Cariboo District Branch of t...

Apr 11, 2019