Canada

Guess who's moving?Burton Cummings complained of noise from dance studio

MOOSE JAW, Sask. - A Saskatchewan fitness studio is moving after multiple noise complaints from Canadian rock legend Burton Cummings. Kyra Klassen, who owns Dance Fitness with Kyra in downtown Mo...

Apr 12, 2019

Opioid overdoses claimed more than 3,200 lives in first nine months of 2018

OTTAWA - The Public Health Agency of Canada has released new data showing that 3,286 Canadians died after apparent opioid-related overdoses between January and September last year. The data also ...

Apr 12, 2019

Montreal offers to help find new homes for carriage horses as industry ends

MONTREAL - The City of Montreal plans to work with the owners of retiring caleche horses to offer the animals a chance to live out their days in the country once the industry is&nb...

Apr 12, 2019

Thieves make off with popular tourist attraction from Peggy's Cove

PEGGY'S COVE, N.S. - One of the most-photographed Nova Scotians is missing. Shorty, a wide-eyed, five-foot-two wooden fisherman, was stolen from outside a tourist spot in Peggy's Cove, N.S.,...

Apr 12, 2019

Romania would welcome Canadian help in minimizing gap in Mali: envoy

OTTAWA - Romania's top diplomat in Ottawa says his country is moving as fast as it can to minimize a gap in the provision of lifesaving medical evacuations for injured UN peacekeepers after Canada end...

Apr 12, 2019

Manitoba premier gets proof of payment on taxes owed on Costa Rica home

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister has produced evidence that he has, after a year of controversy on the subject, paid a luxury tax he owed on his vacation home in Costa Rica. ...

Apr 12, 2019

Astronaut David Saint-Jacques says first spacewalk was 'pure joy'

MONTREAL - When Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques exited the International Space Station this week for his first spacewalk, it was dark out and he couldn't really see Earth. "But the sun was...

Apr 12, 2019

Trudeau defends changes to asylum laws that have refugee workers alarmed

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is defending controversial changes to asylum laws included in an omnibus budget bill tabled this week, saying his government wants to ensure Canada's r...

Apr 12, 2019

Trudeau says mayor who compared Quebec bill to ethnic cleansing should apologize

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday became the latest politician to call out a suburban Montreal mayor who compared Quebec's recently tabled secularism bill to ethnic cleansing. Speaki...

Apr 12, 2019

Companies that build temporary stages should be licensed, coroner's inquest says

TORONTO - A coroner's inquest into the death of a drum technician who was crushed when a stage collapsed before a Radiohead concert in Toronto is recommending that companies that build temporary ...

Apr 12, 2019