Canada

Manitoba government's oversight of commercial vehicles inadequate: auditor

WINNIPEG - Manitoba's auditor general says the province's oversight of large trucks and other commercial vehicles is inadequate. In a 65-page report, Norm Ricard says the province does not properly ch...

Dec 18, 2019

Trial for accused in Toronto van attack delayed to March 2 due to "red tape"

TORONTO - Red tape has delayed the trial for a man who killed 10 people when he drove a van into crowds of pedestrians on a busy Toronto sidewalk in 2018, court heard Monday. The murder trial for Alek...

Dec 18, 2019

Liberals' fiscal update shows billions more in deficits but steady economy

OTTAWA - Canada's federal budget deficit will be billions of dollars deeper than it was supposed to be this year and next, the Finance Department says, as the Liberals promise to keep spendi...

Dec 18, 2019

Canadian Press newsmakers of the year since 1946

Former Liberal minister Jody Wilson-Raybould has been chosen as The Canadian Press's 2019 newsmaker of the year. Here is a list of past newsmakers as chosen in an annual poll of newsrooms across the c...

Dec 18, 2019

Quebec legislature members file police complaints over hateful online messages

MONTREAL - A Quebec legislature member who has highlighted the online hate and abuse faced by female politicians has taken her complaints to police, saying she wants to encourage other victi...

Dec 18, 2019

SNC-Lavalin pleads guilty to fraud, will pay a $280M fine for Libyan work

MONTREAL - A division of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. will plead guilty to a charge of fraud and pay a $280-million penalty related to work the company did in Libya. The plea deal comes on the heels of the ...

Dec 18, 2019

Canadian Press NewsAlert: Jody Wilson-Raybould is CP's newsmaker of the year

OTTAWA - The SNC-Lavalin affair cost Justin Trudeau two cabinet ministers, his most trusted aide, the top federal public servant and possibly a second majority mandate; and now the woman at the centre...

Dec 18, 2019

Right whale gives birth to first calf off the coast of Georgia: Oceana

HALIFAX - An international conservation group has announced the birth of the first North Atlantic right whale calf of the 2019-2020 calving season. Oceana says the calf was born Monday off the co...

Dec 18, 2019

Statistics Canada says annual pace of inflation climbs to 2.2 per cent

OTTAWA - The annual pace of inflation heated up in November as gasoline prices posted their first year-over-year increase since October 2018, Statistics Canada said Wednesday. The agency said the...

Dec 18, 2019

Private investigation into Sherman deaths over, but police probe continues: cops

Toronto police say a private investigation into the slayings of billionaire Barry Sherman and his wife Honey is over, but the force's own probe continues. Insp. Hank Idsinga, the head o...

Dec 18, 2019