Canada

Environmental audit urges feds to shore up monitoring of mining waste

OTTAWA - Canada's environmental watchdog says Environment Canada is properly monitoring the dumping of mining waste into the country's waterways, but is not inspecting potash, coal and ...

Apr 02, 2019

Dieppe veteran who was Canadian Army's longest-serving officer dies at 101

MONTREAL - Honorary Col. David Lloyd Hart, a decorated Second World War veteran who was the Canadian Army's oldest and longest-serving officer, has died at age 101. The Canadian Armed Forces...

Apr 02, 2019

Cabinet members openly debate Jody Wilson-Raybould's future in Liberal caucus

OTTAWA - A day before a crucial Liberal caucus meeting where former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould could be shown the door, members of the Trudeau cabinet are focusing on what was behind h...

Apr 02, 2019

New carbon tax starts coming in for 4 provinces that fought the federal plan

People in Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick will be paying more for gasoline and heating fuel Monday when the federal government's carbon tax begins in provinces th...

Apr 02, 2019

In the news today, April 2

Four stories in the news for Tuesday, April 2 --- MOTHER SAYS BABY NAMED AFTER BRONCOS PLAYER A Saskatchewan woman who named her baby after a hockey player killed in the Humboldt Broncos cra...

Apr 02, 2019

Police identify one of four suspects in alleged kidnapping of Chinese student

Police investigating the alleged abduction of a Chinese student from a parking garage north of Toronto said they've managed to identify one of the four suspects wanted in the case. York Regional Polic...

Apr 02, 2019

B.C. receives two money laundering reports after reviews of real estate, cars

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government is examining two reports on money laundering that it hopes will help stop the flow of dirty money through real estate, luxury cars and horse racing...

Apr 02, 2019

'She just comforts us:' Mother says baby named after Broncos player a gift

NIPAWIN, Sask. - Kelsey Fiddler says every time she looks at her smiling baby's face she feels stronger. It's a gift, she says, from the Humboldt Broncos defenceman she named her daughter after. Fiddl...

Apr 02, 2019

Mulroney memoirs tell different story about interference with AG on Milgaard case

OTTAWA - Jody Wilson-Raybould approvingly points to Brian Mulroney as a prime minister who knew better than to politically interfere with the judgment of his attorney general when it comes to cri...

Apr 02, 2019

Alberta city to honour Broncos victim with arena naming and 'Green Shirt Day'

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - The Alberta hometown for a victim of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash will name an arena after him, and will also make an exception to a decades-old rule that prohibited its mayor fr...

Apr 01, 2019