Canada

Report on missing, murdered Indigenous women to be released in June

OTTAWA - A much-anticipated report on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls is set to be released to the public in June. The four-person commission asked to examine the causes of violence ag...

Apr 10, 2019

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

MONTREAL - Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques says it will likely take him years to fully absorb the experience of walking outside the International Space Station. Saint-Jacques spoke to repo...

Apr 10, 2019

Former Harper cabinet minister hanging up his federal political hat

OTTAWA - Rob Nicholson, the longest-serving Conservative member of Parliament, isn't running for re-election in the fall. Nicholson, who was first elected in 1984 in Niagara Falls and held cabine...

Apr 10, 2019

Trudeau defends changes to asylum laws that have refugee workers alarmed

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

Apr 10, 2019

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

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has joined the chorus of politicians calling on a suburban Montreal mayor to apologize for likening Quebec secularism legislation to ethnic cleansing. Speaking t...

Apr 10, 2019

Coroner's inquest into deadly stage collapse at Radiohead show reconvenes

TORONTO - A coroner's inquest into the death of a drum technician who was crushed when a stage collapsed before a Radiohead concert is reconvening roughly a day after the jury began its deliberat...

Apr 10, 2019

Ontario researcher among global team unveiling first image of a black hole

An international team of researchers that includes an Ontario scientist is to unveil the first captured image of a black hole. The picture was compiled by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, a&...

Apr 10, 2019

More than 100,000 customers still without power after freezing rain in Quebec

MONTREAL - More than 100,000 people across Quebec spent a second night without power after high winds and freezing rain on Monday left ice accumulated on trees and knocked down power lines. As of...

Apr 10, 2019

In the news today, April 10

Five stories in the news for Wednesday, April 10 --- EXPERTS SAY NO GOVERNMENT CAN BRING BACK ALBERTA BITUMEN BOOM Canada's top energy thinkers as well as international experts warn there's ...

Apr 10, 2019

Northern Alberta chiefs to support federal environmental bill at Senate hearing

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Northern Alberta Indigenous leaders warn that watering down the federal government's proposed environmental assessment law would only doom energy projects to more years of court...

Apr 10, 2019