Canada

Transportation board investigation into deadly B.C. derailment enters next phase

CALGARY - The Transportation Safety Board says a year after a fatal train derailment near the Alberta-British Columbia boundary, it is ready to compile the information it has gathered into a repo...

Feb 06, 2020

Fiery train derailment in Saskatchewan, residents evacuated from area

GUERNSEY, Sask. - A freight train derailed in rural Saskatchewan on Thursday morning and residents were being evacuated from the area. The train jumped the tracks about 6:15 a.m. near G...

Feb 06, 2020

Top Ontario health official says coronavirus surveillance is widening

TORONTO - Ontario's chief medical officer of health says surveillance for novel coronavirus in the province is widening outside of those who have recently travelled to the affected regions of China. I...

Feb 06, 2020

Liberals revive Rona Ambrose's bill on sexual assault law training for judges

OTTAWA - The Liberal government has picked up a cause formerly championed by senior Conservative Rona Ambrose, bringing in a bill aimed at ensuring judges are trained in sexual-assault law. The n...

Feb 06, 2020

Quebec to table provincial budget March 10 with emphasis on environment

Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard says the province's fiscal 2020-21 budget will be tabled March 10. It will be Girard's second budget since the Coalition Avenir Quebec won government in 2...

Feb 06, 2020

Quebec premier demands Trudeau cut federal funding to Bill 21 legal challenge

Quebec Premier Francois Legault is lashing out at the Trudeau government after learning a Montreal school board had reportedly received federal funds to contest the province's secularism law in c...

Feb 06, 2020

Another train derailment near Saskatchewan village

A train has derailed near Guernsey, Saskatchewan the second time in less than two months that a train has derailed in the area. Phillipe Gaudet from Humboldt used a drone to capture footage of the tra...

Feb 06, 2020 (Paul Huls/Facebook)

Canadians in Wuhan to be flown out Thursday: government letter

A chartered plane that's to airlift Canadians from the centre of a virus outbreak in China was on its way overseas Tuesday, while its prospective passengers were told to get ready to leave. Forei...

Feb 06, 2020

Impeachment, shmimpeachment: Trump plans to run, and win, on economic record

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump declared his scorched-earth political style an unmitigated success Tuesday in a fiercely partisan, made-for-TV state of the union speech that made it...

Feb 06, 2020

Most Canadian households will get more than they pay from carbon tax: PBO

OTTAWA - A new analysis by Parliament's budget watchdog has found that most households in provinces where the federal carbon tax applies will receive more money back in rebates than they will pay thro...

Feb 06, 2020