Canada

Elizabeth May seeks to blow past political pack with platform roll out

OTTAWA - Green Leader Elizabeth May pushed past the political pack Monday by introducing a wide-ranging set of new policy promises while her rivals were recycling or expanding on old ideas. Cons...

Sep 18, 2019

Ortis arrest 'unsettling,' top Mountie says amid damage assessment

OTTAWA - The Mounties are assessing and trying to mitigate the damage that might have been caused in light of the arrest of one of their senior intelligence officials, RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lu...

Sep 18, 2019

Alberta inquiry into oil and gas foes could face legal challenge from Ecojustice

CALGARY - An environmental law group is threatening legal action if the Alberta government's inquiry into the funding of oil and gas industry foes continues as is. Vancouver-based Ecojustice issued th...

Sep 18, 2019

Squash regatta squished and a cougar in the loo; In the news for Sept. 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 Sept. 18. What we are watching ...

Sep 18, 2019

One week down, four-and-a-half to go in federal election campaign

OTTAWA - The federal election campaign marks a milestone today: one week down, and four-and-a-half to go. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia today, having made marquee p...

Sep 18, 2019

Trudeau campaigns in Atlantic Canada

MIDGELL, P.E.I. - Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau travelled Tuesday through Atlantic Canada, hoping to remind Atlantic Canadians why they handed him every seat in the regio...

Sep 17, 2019

N.S. senior whose birthday card request drew international response dies

SYDNEY, N.S. - A Nova Scotia widower who received thousands of birthday cards last year after his daughter asked people to mail him their best wishes for his 92nd birthday has died...

Sep 17, 2019

Greens call for stronger digital privacy protections

WATERLOO, Ont. - Intrusions into Canadians' digital privacy have become a crisis and it's time to stop companies from mining people's information for profit, the Green party leader said Tuesday a...

Sep 17, 2019

Court allows appeal on pipeline certificate, says B.C. needs to reconsider

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government has been ordered by the province's highest court to reconsider its environmental assessment certificate allowing the expansion of the Trans M...

Sep 17, 2019

Man who scammed romantic partner wants mistrial despite guilty finding

TORONTO - A con artist who scammed the romantic partner he met online out of hundreds of thousands of dollars has asked a judge to declare a mistrial months after finding him guilty. In his motion, Sh...

Sep 17, 2019