Canada

Sask. Premier Scott Moe participates in Pride parade in Saskatoon

SASKATOON - Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe has attended his first Pride parade. Moe participated in the Saskatoon Pride Festival parade held on Saturday along with some other Saskatchewan Pa...

Jun 22, 2019

Invasive goldfish found in B.C. lake, biologists act to stop spread to watershed

VICTORIA - Recreational fishing in a lake in northwestern British Columbia is being shut down after the discovery of invasive goldfish. The Ministry of Natural Resource Operations says ...

Jun 22, 2019

Monument to Canada's war in Afghanistan gets a home after years of bickering

OTTAWA - A site has been officially approved for the federal government's promised national monument for the war in Afghanistan, five years after the memorial was first promised. The decision by the N...

Jun 22, 2019

Judge won't dismiss charges against Alberta couple charged in meningitis death

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - An Alberta judge rejected a defence application Thursday to dismiss the case against a couple charged in the meningitis death of their toddler. David and Colle...

Jun 22, 2019

Retired UBC professor Peter Winterburn killed in Chile, school confirms

VALPARAISO, Chile - A retired geochemistry professor from the University of British Columbia has been killed in attempted robbery in Valparaiso, Chile, the school confirmed Saturday. In a post on Face...

Jun 22, 2019

B.C. tanker-ban, environment assessment bills scale final hurdle in Senate

OTTAWA - A pair of controversial environmental bills scaled their final hurdle in the Senate on Thursday, over the objections of critics who warn the two pieces of legislation will knee...

Jun 22, 2019

Calgary manslaughter trial hears five-year-old boy victim of weeks of abuse

CALGARY - A more prosperous life was supposed to be in store for Emilio Perdomo when he was brought to Canada from Mexico in February 2015. But instead, a Crown prosecutor says, the little b...

Jun 22, 2019

Elections Canada scraps social media 'influencers' to encourage youth vote

OTTAWA - Elections Canada has scrapped plans to use social-media "influencers" to persuade young Canadians to register to vote in this fall's federal election. Chief electoral officer Stephane Perraul...

Jun 22, 2019

Teens have privacy rights, doctor tells inquest into 16-year-old's opioid death

VICTORIA - Two family doctors and an orthopedic surgeon told a British Columbia coroner's inquest Thursday about the dilemmas they faced treating a 16-year-old patient who denied he was...

Jun 22, 2019

Alberta asks Court of Appeal to look at constitutionality of federal carbon tax

EDMONTON - Alberta's justice minister says the province is asking for a legal opinion on the constitutionality of the federal government imposing its carbon tax. At a news conferen...

Jun 22, 2019