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Detained ex-Canadian diplomat Kovrig gets second consular visit in China
OTTAWA - Former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig received a consular visit Thursday for the second time since his arrest in China last month for allegedly endangering Chinese national s...
Jan 12, 2019
Police release driver in fatal Ottawa bus crash without charges
OTTAWA - Police have released the driver of a double-decker bus that crashed into a transit shelter in Ottawa and left three people dead and 23 more injured. The driver of the OC Transpo bus was relea...
Jan 12, 2019
Police release driver in fatal Ottawa bus crash without charges
OTTAWA - Police have released the driver of a double-decker bus that crashed into a transit shelter in Ottawa and left three people dead and 23 more injured. The driver of the OC Transpo bus was relea...
Jan 12, 2019
N.B. cannabis retailer lays off staffers as 'operational needs' become clear
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's cannabis retailer is laying off staff, saying it has a better understanding of "operational needs" three months after the historic legalization of recreational marijuana....
Jan 12, 2019
Teen refugee fleeing Saudi Arabia arrives in Toronto
TORONTO - A Saudi teen described as a "brave new Canadian" by one of the federal government's senior ministers has landed in Toronto after fleeing her allegedly abusive family. Rahaf Mohammed Alq...
Jan 12, 2019
N.B. cannabis retailer lays off staffers as 'operational needs' become clear
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's cannabis retailer is laying off staff, saying it has a better understanding of "operational needs" three months after the historic legalization of recreational marijuana....
Jan 12, 2019
Trump: USMCA to pay for wall; 'I never said they would write out a cheque'
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump leaned ever closer Thursday towards declaring a national emergency at the southern U.S. border - and repeated his flummoxing claim that America'...
Jan 12, 2019
Teen refugee fleeing Saudi Arabia arrives in Toronto
TORONTO - A Saudi teen described as a "brave new Canadian" by one of the federal government's senior ministers has landed in Toronto after fleeing her allegedly abusive family. Rahaf Mohammed Alq...
Jan 12, 2019
Trump: USMCA to pay for wall; 'I never said they would write out a cheque'
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump leaned ever closer Thursday towards declaring a national emergency at the southern U.S. border - and repeated his flummoxing claim that America'...
Jan 12, 2019
$74M not enough to cut refugee claim backlog: internal documents
OTTAWA - The agency that processes refugee claims in Canada estimated it would need almost four times as much money as it is getting to tackle a major backlog in asylum claims, cau...
Jan 12, 2019
