Canada

New Canadian fighter jets will need U.S. certification: DND

OTTAWA - American officials will need to certify the fighter jet Canada buys at the end of a multibillion-dollar procurement that's started and stopped and started again for more than a...

May 12, 2019

Wildfire prompts evacuation order, state of emergency in central B.C.

FRASER LAKE, B.C. - Fraser Lake Mayor Sarrah Storey was driving back from a soccer tournament out of town when she saw the skyline transformed by a wildfire creeping up a mountain on the edge of ...

May 12, 2019

Bystander left uneasy as N.L. officer seen with carbine rifle at mall in false call

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A young woman who snapped a photo of a police officer walking through a St. John's mall with a carbine firearm at the ready says she wishes officers could tell citizens more when hi...

May 12, 2019

Eastern Ontario communities reeling as Ottawa River hits historic high

OTTAWA - Soldiers with the Canadian Armed Forces are working to try and save homes in eastern Ontario communities that have declared states of emergency due to historic water levels in some areas...

May 12, 2019

Montreal's tam-tams could be 40 years old, but origin remains contested

MONTREAL - Every Sunday afternoon from spring through fall, hundreds of people gather on the slopes of Mount Royal for the tam-tams, a loosely organized weekly festival of drumming, dancing, and ...

May 12, 2019

RCMP defends 'thorough, independent' investigation into Vice-Admiral Mark Norman

OTTAWA - The RCMP is defending its investigation of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, which has come under sustained fire since the politically charged case against the military's former second-in-command col...

May 12, 2019

Waters to rise again in Ottawa area, even as N.B. turns to flood recovery mode

Water levels are expected to rise again this weekend between Ottawa and Montreal, even as New Brunswick's floods are effectively over. Officials warned late Thursday that "significant" rainfall is exp...

May 12, 2019

Rural Canada's voice in cabinet says feds looking at funding community ISPs

OTTAWA - A new plan to help rural Canada thrive will focus on expanding internet and cellphone coverage, even funding communities that want to be their own service providers, the minister in...

May 12, 2019

Trump U.S. Senate ally says Kovrig, Spavor face 'harsh' treatment in China

OTTAWA - China is detaining two Canadians in harsh conditions and U.S. lawmakers won't rest until they are freed, says a powerful Republican senator. The full-throated American support for Canadian ex...

May 12, 2019

Federal Court of Appeal narrows release of Senate-scandal documents

OTTAWA - The government does not have to release parts of a memo about the Senate's expense scandals in 2013 because it constituted legal advice for then prime minister Stephen Harper, the Federa...

May 12, 2019