Canada

Quebec teachers, religious groups denounce government's secularism bill

MONTREAL - Advocacy organizations and citizens are denouncing the Quebec government's secularism legislation, saying it turns religious minorities into second-class citizens. The bill tabled today wou...

Mar 28, 2019

Top bureaucrat wrote 60-page memo to Trudeau about Mark Norman case, lawyer says

OTTAWA - Vice-Admiral Mark Norman's lawyer says she wants to see a secret 60-page memo the federal government's top bureaucrat penned for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about her client's case. Ma...

Mar 28, 2019

B.C. human rights tribunal rules anti-transgender poster campaign discriminatory

VANCOUVER - A Vancouver trans woman who made a human rights complaint about a poster campaign that called transgenderism an "impossibility" has won her case. Morgane Oger ran as an NDP candidate ...

Mar 28, 2019

Supreme Court stresses jail should be 'the exception' for people awaiting trial

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says making an accused person wait in jail before trial should be the exception, not the rule, in a decision that affirms a key legal safeguard inte...

Mar 28, 2019

MPs denounce leaked reports of Trudeau-JWR clash over Supreme Court pick

OTTAWA - Leaked reports about a dispute between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould over a Supreme Court appointment drew condemnation from bar ass...

Mar 28, 2019

Canadian farmers face uncertainty after China escalates canola feud

Canadian farmers are facing an uncertain future after China escalated its feud over canola on Tuesday. "There is a lot of confusion amongst farmers about what is able to be exported," said David Quist...

Mar 28, 2019

Much of East Coast is one 'perfect storm' away from being cut off from Canada

AMHERST, N.S. - First of a two-part series on the stunning potential impact that climate change could have on the low-lying, narrow band of land connecting Nova Scotia to the rest of Canada. --- John ...

Mar 28, 2019

Trudeau says sorry for sarcastic thank you comment to Indigenous protester

HALIFAX - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is sorry for disrespecting an Indigenous protester during a Liberal fundraising event Wednesday in Toronto. The prime minister is in Halifax today ...

Mar 28, 2019

Refugee who sheltered Snowden hopes others who helped can join her in Canada

TORONTO - A newly arrived refugee who helped shelter whistleblower Edward Snowden in Hong Kong pleaded with Canadian officials on Tuesday to grant asylum to others who assisted the American fugit...

Mar 28, 2019

Wrongfully convicted man's case sat on Wilson-Raybould's desk for months

OTTAWA - Glen Assoun's lawyer says the wrongfully convicted Halifax man suffered "every single day" as he waited to be exonerated for a murder he didn't commit - a wait that was prolonged for months a...

Mar 28, 2019