Canada

Safety board investigates after second train derailment in B.C. within a week

CALGARY - The Transportation Safety Board is investigating a derailment in British Columbia involving a Canadian Pacific Kansas City train. It's the second time this month a CPKC train has been involv...

Sep 9, 2025

Fixing WestJet plane in St. Maarten likely 'very difficult project': aviation experts

An aviation expert and former pilot says it will be a challenge to repair the WestJet plane that landed roughly in St. Maarten on the weekend and shut down the Caribbean island's airport for a day. Ke...

Sep 9, 2025

Battle that led to Haiti's independence among names of new Montreal metro stations

MONTRAL - Montreal Mayor Valrie Plante has unveiled the names of five new stations that will extend the subway system into the city's east end. Plante says the names were chosen to celebrate women and...

Sep 9, 2025

Federal government hasn't heard directly from China on EV tariffs, minister says

WINNIPEG - Canada's agriculture minister says any decision to ease tariffs on electric vehicles from China would have to take into consideration impacts on other sectors. Heath MacDonald says the gove...

Sep 9, 2025

Quebecers have strongest opinions against public prayer, Leger poll suggests

MONTREAL - New polling suggests a public prayer ban is most popular among Quebecers, where 43 per cent of respondents believe organized prayers in public spaces should never be permitted. The Leger po...

Sep 9, 2025

Vancouver Chinatown stabbing suspect Donnelly testifies, tells of finding God

VANCOUVER - The man accused of stabbing three people at a festival in Vancouver's Chinatown in 2023 is testifying at his trial, telling the court how he found religion. Blair Donnelly, who has pleaded...

Sep 9, 2025

Bill Daly: NHL expects decision on Hockey Canada five 'in the relatively near future'

LAS VEGAS - NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly says he expects a decision soon on the status of five former Hockey Canada players acquitted at trial in a high-profile sexual assault case. Michael McLeo...

Sep 9, 2025

Gananoque, Ont., mayor wants to clamp down on Quebec parking scofflaws — literally

MONTREAL - The mayor of a town in eastern Ontario is proposing to clamp down on Quebec drivers who incur parking tickets by immobilizing their vehicles until they pay. Gananoque Mayor John Beddows inc...

Sep 9, 2025

Liberal MPs meet in Edmonton to prepare for fall sitting, major projects agenda

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal caucus is meeting in Edmonton this week ahead of the fall sitting of Parliament. It's the first time the caucus has met since June, and the first caucus r...

Sheldon Spackman Sep 9, 2025

Minister who oversaw Quebec auto board during cost overrun scandal out of cabinet

QUBEC - One of the Quebec ministers who oversaw an auto insurance board project that incurred major cost overruns says he will be shuffled out of cabinet. Franois Bonnardel, now public security minist...

Sep 9, 2025