Canada

B.C. herring fishery ends for another season, controversy over catch continues

VICTORIA - Commercial fishing boats on the B.C. coast have returned to their home ports after a successful spring herring roe fishery in the Strait of Georgia off Vancouver Island, but opponents of th...

Apr 04, 2019

PBO says it cannot fully measure cost of tax avoidance due to incomplete data

OTTAWA - Parliament's spending watchdog says he still does not have access to all the data his office needs to determine the amount of money the federal government loses each ...

Apr 04, 2019

Legal battle continues between smokers, tobacco companies and provincial govts

TORONTO - Lawyers representing Quebec smokers and provincial governments are pushing back against an Ontario court ruling that suspended legal proceedings against three major tobacco compani...

Apr 04, 2019

In the news today, April 4

Five stories in the news for Thursday, April 4 --- FAMILIES HONOUR LOVED ONES FROM BRONCOS BUS CRASH Families of people who died in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash say scholarships, events and pla...

Apr 04, 2019

Number of Quebecers seeking assisted death has jumped, commission finds

QUEBEC - The number of Quebecers seeking medical assistance in dying has been growing steadily since 2015, according to a report on the state of end-of-life care tabled Wednesday in the provincial leg...

Apr 03, 2019

Gala So White: Zero diversity among nominees for Quebec TV viewers' choice awards

MONTREAL - Viewers' choice awards celebrating the most popular stars on Quebec television will be handed out next month, and all of the 70 stars nominated are white. In a province where roughly 1...

Apr 03, 2019

Canada warming twice as fast as rest of the world, scientific report shows

OTTAWA - Canada is warming up twice as fast as the rest of the world and it's "effectively irreversible," a new scientific report from Environment and Climate Change Canada says. At stake is...

Apr 03, 2019

CMHC looks to raise extra money for housing outside of billions from government

OTTAWA - The president of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says his agency wants to raise millions more dollars to help Canadians afford places to live despite the billions already available...

Apr 03, 2019

Freeland say lifting U.S. tariffs is part of ratification of the new NAFTA

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is linking the lifting of "absurd" U.S. tariffs on Canadian and Mexican steel to the ratification of the new North American free-trade deal. Freelan...

Apr 03, 2019

EDC investigating claim it backed SNC-Lavalin on corrupt Angola dam contract

OTTAWA - Export Development Canada says it's reviewing support it gave to SNC-Lavalin after learning of an allegation the agency backed the company on a dam project in Angola that it wo...

Apr 03, 2019