Canada

Last GM cars roll out and watch for the 2019 newsmaker; In The News for Dec. 18

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 Dec. 18. What we are watching i...

Dec 18, 2019

Little Bay Islanders say goodbye as N.L. town resettles, but some eye return

LITTLE BAY ISLANDS, N.L. - On a clear Friday morning in mid-November, the MV Hazel McIsaac is packed with a gaggle of chatting passengers. U-Hauls and pick-up trucks are parked on the ferry's bottom d...

Dec 18, 2019

'You can call anything a national concern:' Alberta questions federal carbon tax

EDMONTON - Allowing Ottawa's carbon tax law to stand would give the federal government a tool it could use to repeatedly chip away at provincial powers, lawyers for the Alberta government ar...

Dec 18, 2019

First Nation alleges Ottawa withheld info during Trans Mountain consultation

VANCOUVER - A lawyer for a British Columbia First Nation is accusing the federal government of withholding key information about oil spills until after the latest consultation on the Trans Mountain pi...

Dec 18, 2019

Morneau set to hear from provinces pushing for more financial help

OTTAWA - The Trudeau Liberals opened the door Monday to changing the way the federal government decides how much financial help it gives cash-strapped provinces, ahead of talks among the cou...

Dec 18, 2019

What is gender-based analysis, anyway? How the policy tool is changing government

OTTAWA - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police noticed that among rank-and-file members showing an interest in promotions, fewer women than men were putting their hands up. A gender-based analys...

Dec 18, 2019

Bus with Victoria students rolled after it moved for Jeep on logging road: RCMP

VANCOUVER - A bus loaded with University of Victoria students moved over for an oncoming vehicle just as a logging road narrowed before it rolled over in September, killing two stu...

Dec 17, 2019

Smart gun argument makes Danforth shooting class action hard to win: expert

TORONTO - Arguing that the use of smart technology in gun manufacturing could have prevented a deadly mass shooting in Toronto's Greektown will take a proposed class action&nb...

Dec 17, 2019

Ottawa's consultation with Indigenous groups on pipeline was meaningful: Lawyer

VANCOUVER - Lawyers for the Canadian government say it conducted a new round of consultations with Indigenous groups about the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion that was reasonable, adequate...

Dec 17, 2019

Wilkinson 'wrestling' with how oilsands mine would fit into climate commitments

CALGARY - The federal environment minister says he's spoken with his Alberta counterpart about how Canada's climate commitments could weigh into his decision about a large proposed oils...

Dec 17, 2019