Canada

RCMP believe suspects in northern B.C. homicides still in Manitoba

GILLAM, Man. - Mounties in Manitoba say there have been two confirmed sightings of a pair of teens suspected in the deaths of three people in northern British Columbia.Cpl. Julie Courchaine says the s...

Jul 25, 2019

Court orders Elections Canada to review moving voting day over religious worries

OTTAWA - Canada's chief electoral officer is taking a second look at whether voting day this October needs to be moved because it falls on a Jewish holiday after being ordered by a Federal Court ...

Jul 25, 2019

Scheer says Liberals exaggerating over his call to review Canada Food Guide

ST-HYACINTHE, Que. - On a visit to an agricultural fair in a battleground riding east of Montreal Tuesday, Conservative leader Andrew Scheer defended his promise to review the Canada Food Gu...

Jul 25, 2019

Group linked to robocalls and text messages registers as third party

OTTAWA - A third-party organization linked to a series of robocall and text campaigns in Canada is now officially registered as a third party for the upcoming federal election. Canada Strong and ...

Jul 25, 2019

Quebec police believe to have found bodies of missing Quebec businessman and son

MONTREAL - Police say they believe they have found the bodies of a Quebec businessman and his teenage son who went missing two weeks ago in the upper Laurentians. In a tweet today,...

Jul 25, 2019

Lametti swats back at Ontario attorney general over legal aid spending

OTTAWA - The Ontario government's rejection of shared responsibility for legal aid is an "excuse for spending cuts" that will leave many of the province's most vulnerable at greate...

Jul 25, 2019

Canadian navy not asked to join British coalition to protect Strait of Hormuz

OTTAWA - Canada has no plans to contribute a ship to Britain's nascent navy coalition to defend international shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. A spokesman for Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says Cana...

Jul 25, 2019

Artists' work reduced to ash after fire destroys shared Winnipeg studio

WINNIPEG - Shawna Dempsey did not believe it when she received a text saying a warehouse used by more than two dozen artists as a studio space had gone up in flames. Dempsey asked if it was ...

Jul 25, 2019

Fourth body recovered from site of Labrador plane crash, three still missing

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The RCMP say a fourth body has been recovered from the Labrador lake where a float plane carrying seven men, including the pilot, crashed July 15. Cpl. Jolene Garland said dive...

Jul 25, 2019

Alberta RCMP apologize for poor investigation into Indigenous woman's death

EDMONTON - The commanding officer of the RCMP in Alberta has apologized to the family of an Indigenous woman who disappeared nine years ago and whose killer has never been found.Amber Tuccaro was 20 y...

Jul 25, 2019 Amber Tuccaro