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Montreal police won't face charges in fatal 2017 shooting of black man: Crown
MONTREAL - Quebec's Crown prosecutors' office say it won't press charges against the Montreal police officers who fatally shot a black man during a 2017 intervention. The office says in a news re...
Mar 01, 2019

Immigration and clean power top agenda for federal and Atlantic officials
HALIFAX - A federal program aimed at attracting foreign workers to Atlantic Canada will be extended for another two years. The Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program was supposed to end this yea...
Mar 01, 2019

Alberta ban on school seclusion rooms comes with possible exemptions
EDMONTON - Alberta Education Minister David Eggen says schools and parents will be able to request exemptions to a ban on seclusion rooms that will take effect this fall. Eggen stresses that...
Mar 01, 2019

Ontario researchers discover how bacteria become resistant to antibiotics
Ontario researchers say they have discovered how bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, a finding they say could help combat the growing problem. Maikel Rheinstadter, a physics professor with ...
Mar 01, 2019

Canadian government green-lights formal extradition process for Meng Wanzhou
OTTAWA - The federal Justice Department gave the go-ahead Friday for an extradition case against Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, marking the formal start of the high-profile process ...
Mar 01, 2019

New impact assessment bill for energy projects to get major changes in Senate
OTTAWA - The federal government's promised overhaul of environmental evaluations for energy projects could get major surgery before the Senate is finished with it. Bill C-69, the Impact Assessmen...
Mar 01, 2019

Nathan Cullen joins long list of NDP MPs who won't seek re-election
OTTAWA - Nathan Cullen, one of the NDP's best known and most effective MPs, is calling it quits. He's announcing he won't seek re-election this fall. That makes 13 of the 44 New Democrats elected...
Mar 01, 2019

CMHC sets target to make housing affordable for every Canadian by 2030
OTTAWA - A federal housing agency hopes to see every Canadian with an affordable home by 2030 and has offered up a plan full of experiments to make it happen. The Canada Mortgage and Housing...
Mar 01, 2019

NewsAlert: Appeals Court upholds landmark tobacco ruling
MONTREAL - The Quebec Court of Appeal has upheld a landmark judgment that ordered three tobacco companies to pay billions of dollars in damages to Quebec smokers. Imperial Tob...
Mar 01, 2019

Telemiracle weekend set to kick off in Saskatchewan
For the 43rd year in a row, Saskatchewan will be asked to "ring those phones!"The Kinsmen Telemiracle fundraising telethon starts Saturday night at TCU Place in Saskatoon.Telemiracle chair Adam Logue ...
Mar 01, 2019 Volunteers take donations over the phone at Telemiracle 42 in Regina on March 4, 2018.(Submitted photo/980 CJME)

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