Canada

MPs tout supply management as fix for poor countries, aim to shelter from trade deals

OTTAWA - Members of Parliament are rallying to bolster Canada's system of protecting dairy and poultry prices amid trade deals, and suggest developing countries do the same. The House of Commons trade...

Apr 20, 2023

Some U.S. cities may offer model to ease Canada transit violence: experts

TORONTO - As Canadian cities look for ways to combat violence on public transit, experts say strategies south of the border that combine law enforcement, social supports and community engagement could...

Apr 20, 2023

At least 7 of the men caught crossing border from Manitoba are Mexican: officials

WARROAD, Minn. - United States officials say at least seven of the nine men caught crossing the border this week from southeast Manitoba are Mexican citizens. RCMP were first alerted to the group when...

Apr 19, 2023

Trudeau told NATO Canada can't meet defence spending target, Washington Post reports

WASHINGTON - The Washington Post says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau privately told NATO that Canada would never meet the military alliance's targets for defence spending. The Post report, published to...

Apr 19, 2023

Cost of carbon emissions nearly five times higher than previously thought: analysis

OTTAWA - Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says a new analysis of the social cost of carbon emissions suggests the cost of greenhouse-gas emissions is nearly five times higher than was previously...

Apr 19, 2023

Minister's sister-in-law steps down as ethics watchdog after committee launches probe

OTTAWA - The sister-in-law of a Liberal cabinet minister has stepped down as the interim ethics commissioner a day after a House of Commons committee agreed to investigate her appointment. Martine Ric...

Apr 19, 2023

B.C. First Nation sues port firm, others for disrupting ancestral remains

VANCOUVER - The Bonaparte First Nation in British Columbia's Interior is suing a shipping port company and several others, claiming railway infrastructure development has destroyed and disturbed its a...

Apr 19, 2023

Senator to appear before parliamentary committee over inauthentic docs for Afghans

OTTAWA - A Manitoba senator who denies falsifying travel documents for Afghan refugees will be grilled by a committee of parliamentarians over allegations her actions may have left refugees stranded. ...

Apr 19, 2023

Many passport renewals on pause during federal public service workers' strike

TORONTO - Senjuti Sarker needed to renew her passport for an upcoming trip to Europe but her attempt at doing so failed Wednesday after federal public service workers went on strike. Sarker, who was h...

Apr 19, 2023

Break-in at N.W.T. government office results in privacy breach affecting 3,000 people

YELLOWKNIFE - The Northwest Territories government says a break-in at its Department of Education, Culture and Employment headquarters in Yellowknife has resulted in a privacy breach affecting about 3...

Apr 19, 2023