Canada

Animal welfare advocates move to seize exotic animals from Quebec roadside zoo

ST-EDOUARD-DE-MASKINONGE, Que. - In what they're describing as a Canadian first, animal welfare officials announced Tuesday that they were charging the owner of a Quebec zoo with criminal animal ...

May 23, 2019

Scheer promises mandatory sentence of five years for child abuse

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is pledging to get tough on crime with mandatory minimum sentences of five years for anyone convicted of abusing children. Scheer, who made the announce...

May 23, 2019

Ontario researchers invent way to store vaccines at higher temperatures

Ontario researchers say they've come up with a simple way to store vaccines at higher temperatures for weeks at a time, potentially solving a major problem in the fight against preventable diseas...

May 23, 2019

Feds launch tourism strategy designed to boost sector 25 per cent by 2025

OTTAWA - A new Canadian tourism strategy is meant to help boost international visits to Canada during non-peak seasons by more than a million people and get visitors to see the cou...

May 23, 2019

Supreme Court of Canada won't hear Alberta murder appeals

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada won't hear the appeals of an Alberta couple convicted of first-degree murder. Sheena Cuthill and her husband Timothy Rempel were found guilty three years ago of ki...

May 23, 2019

N.L. man found not guilty of possessing child pornography in sex doll trial

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A Newfoundland man has been found not guilty of possessing child pornography after a judge determined it was not proven he knew the sex doll he ordered was child-sized. A ...

May 23, 2019

Crews fight fire with fire to keep blaze from northern Alberta town

HIGH LEVEL, Alta. - A fire-threatened town in northern Alberta says a successful controlled burn has been carried out to help keep a raging nearby wildfire at bay. A statement on High Level's web...

May 23, 2019

Desmond fatality inquiry begins in Nova Scotia two years after suicide, murders

GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - More than two years after former Canadian soldier Lionel Desmond killed his mother, wife and daughter before taking his own life, a provincial fatality inquiry ...

May 23, 2019

Pipeline protester chimes in on prime minister's fundraising speech

VANCOUVER - An Indigenous protester opposed to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion interrupted a speech by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a Liberal fundraiser on Wednesday. Will George of the Tsle...

May 23, 2019

In the news today, May 23

Four stories in the news for Thursday, May 23 --- TRUDEAU TO EXONERATE CHIEF POUNDMAKER Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to visit a Saskatchewan First Nation today to exonerate a chief ...

May 23, 2019