Canada

Shatner, Obomsawin among 39 inductees to Order of Canada today

OTTAWA - Gov. Gen. Julie Payette is honouring 39 people with the Order of Canada this morning, including actor William Shatner, writer Ann-Marie MacDonald and lawyer James Lockyer. Shatner is being gi...

Nov 21, 2019

'This has to stop': Liquor store in Winnipeg to close after employees assaulted

WINNIPEG - Three Manitoba liquor store workers were assaulted and one was taken to hospital in what the province's Crown corporation calls an unprovoked attack. It happened in Winnipeg on Wednesday&nb...

Nov 20, 2019

Canadian class action proposed over alleged carcinogenic herbicide

TORONTO - Lawyers for a group of Canadians affected by cancer they blame on exposure to a weed killer have filed three proposed class-action lawsuits against the product's manufacturer, alle...

Nov 20, 2019

John Mann, singer and songwriter of group Spirit of the West dead at 57

VANCOUVER - John Mann, lead singer and songwriter for Vancouver's beloved Celtic-inflected rock band Spirit of the West, has died. He was 57. Eric Alper, the band's publicist, says Mann died peacefull...

Nov 20, 2019

What's the president of the Privy Council do? Five things about the new cabinet

OTTAWA - Five things to note about the new federal cabinet Prime Minister Justin Trudeau named Wednesday: He has a deputy prime minister Besides being intergovernmental-affairs minister, in charge of ...

Nov 20, 2019

Legault not ruling out a 'Quebec Amazon' to promote local retailers

QUEBEC - Premier Francois Legault is open to the creation of a Quebec version of Amazon, which his economy minister described Wednesday as a way to serve nationalist customers. Leg...

Nov 20, 2019

Civil service union calls on new cabinet to prioritize Phoenix deal, contract

OTTAWA - The country's largest civil-service union isn't waiting for the prime minister to give marching orders to his new cabinet, offering up its own suggestions instead of government priorities in ...

Nov 20, 2019

Reaction and quotes about the new Liberal cabinet

OTTAWA - What newsmakers said about the new federal cabinet sworn in Wednesday: "We recognize that this Parliament will be one in which collaboration, in which working with a broad range of parti...

Nov 20, 2019

The Latest: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveils members of his new cabinet

OTTAWA - The latest on the unveiling and swearing-in of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet. All times Eastern. 4:20 p.m. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the only thing on his ...

Nov 20, 2019

Attorney General Lametti swears new oath in wake of SNC-Lavalin affair

OTTAWA - The swearing-in ceremony for members of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet had a new element added Wednesday: a revamped oath for the attorney general and justice minister. David Lametti...

Nov 20, 2019