Canada

Friends, targets salute Christie Blatchford's 'insightful,' 'unrelenting' career

TORONTO - Veteran court reporter, celebrated author and biting newspaper columnist Christie Blatchford, whose vivid prose championed cops, kids and soldiers while challenging corruption and hashtag so...

Feb 14, 2020

Canadian officials helping in Japan after 12 Canadians contract virus on ship

MUNICH - Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says Canadian health workers are assisting in Japan after 12 Canadians contracted the novel coronavirus while on a cruise ship. ...

Feb 14, 2020

Firefighters calendar too hot to handle and anti-pipeline protests; In The News for Feb. 14

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Feb. 14 ... What...

Feb 14, 2020

Pipeline protests expected today, governments to meet with First Nations

VICTORIA - Anti-pipeline protests that have severed vital freight and passenger rail links across Canada could heat up today, with the added threat of activists planning to shut down governm...

Feb 14, 2020

Global economic security critical, Trudeau to tell security conference

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will address the Munich Security Conference today and urge global leaders to accept that a changing world requires more effort to bring economic prosperity for a...

Feb 14, 2020

Trudeau secures Senegal's vote for UN Security Council seat on Dakar trip

DAKAR, Senegal - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called on the world to do more to spread freedom Wednesday, as he visited a museum in Senegal that was once a centre in the African slave trade...

Feb 14, 2020

A note on a dropped piano and a curtain call; In The News for Feb. 12

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Feb. 12 ... What...

Feb 14, 2020

Chiefs head to court over pipeline as supporters take to streets in protest

Two hereditary chiefs from a British Columbia First Nation at the heart of a wave of national protests launched a constitutional challenge of fossil fuel projects on Wednesday as Prime Minister J...

Feb 14, 2020

'Valuable life lesson:' Woman arrested for anti-Indigenous comments apologizes

THE PAS, Man. - A woman arrested in northern Manitoba for online comments threatening violence against Indigenous people has asked for forgiveness and says she has learned valuable lessons. Destine Sp...

Feb 14, 2020

A timeline on rail disruptions by anti-pipeline protesters across Canada

RCMP began enforcing an injunction last week that prevents interference with construction of a $6.6-billion natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia. Here is a timeline of rail disruptions by...

Feb 13, 2020