Canada

B.C. seaplane company's plan for electric fleet is set for take off

VANCOUVER - A seaplane company in British Columbia says it is partnering with an electric propulsion firm with the goal of becoming the world's first all-electric airline. Harbour Air operat...

Mar 28, 2019

Calgary police officers to appeal corruption conviction in harassment case

CALGARY - Two former Calgary police officers found guilty of misusing department computers and harassing a woman in a custody battle have filed appeals. Court documents say Bradfor...

Mar 28, 2019

Chinese student Wanzhen Lu found safe after abduction Saturday: police

Chinese student Wanzhen Lu, who was violently taken from an underground parking garage in Markham, Ont., north of Toronto on Saturday, has been found safe and in good health. Const. Andy Pat...

Mar 28, 2019

Trudeau sells housing plan in visit to hot real estate market in B.C.

MAPLE RIDGE, B.C. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau touted efforts by the Liberal government to help first-time homebuyers put more down on their mortgages during a visit to a region of the co...

Mar 28, 2019

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