Canada News

CBC's The Fifth Estate has found that the maker of a helicopter that crashed near Newfoundland a year ago, killing 17 people, knew more than six months earlier about the gearbox problem that downed the chopper. CBC.ca

Fred Preston, who faced charges in the shootout death of an Ontario Provincial Police officer, has died, the province's Special Investigations Unit confirmed late Thursday. CBC.ca

The federal government tabled legislation Thursday that could see more than 45,000 Canadians recognized as status Indians under changes to the Indian Act. CBC.ca

Several news outlets will be in a Winnipeg court Friday to argue that an inquest into the high-profile death of a homeless man should be televised so as many people as possible can watch it. CBC.ca

Quebec Health Minister Yves Bolduc says the province is going ahead with a plan to fully fund in vitro fertility treatments for women. CBC.ca

More metal pins have been found in cheese and bread in a southwest Calgary Co-op store. CBC.ca

The head of the Vancouver Games and the International Ice Hockey Federation acknowledge the puck from Canada's 3-2 overtime win over the U.S. also went missing, although the IIHF says it has been found. CBC.ca

Canada's budget watchdog disagrees with parts of last week's federal budget, namely the deficit forecasts and economic expectations. CBC.ca

Isaiah May, the Alberta infant who had been in intensive care since he suffered severe brain damage during his birth in October, died in his parents' arms just after he was taken off life support shortly after noon Thursday at Edmonton's Stollery Children's Hospital. CBC.ca

Quebec police have issued an arrest warrant on fraud charges for the former head of the construction arm of the province's biggest federation of labour unions. CBC.ca

Dr. Barbara Heartwell, a Windsor, Ont., surgeon suspended after performing unnecessary mastectomies, will return to the operating room. CBC.ca

The Conservative government introduced new legislation to amend the Indian Act that, if passed, could recognize an additional 45,000 Canadians as status Indians. CBC.ca

Fredy Villanueva's mother sat silently beside her husband and children as the coroner's inquest into her son's death continued at the Montreal courthouse on Thursday. A day earlier she ran out of the hearing room in tears. CBC.ca

NATO allies lobbied Afghan's president for a separate legal framework to handle prisoners captured around Kandahar in late 2006 but those efforts went "nowhere," say internal Canadian government memos. CBC.ca

Ontario tax collectors will get a six-month 'severance' package worth as much as $45,000 each as the province moves to harmonize sales taxes, even though they will not lose their jobs. CBC.ca

A Calgary mother accused in her daughter's overdose death has testified she didn't know the toddler swallowed methadone until after she was found dead. CBC.ca

One of the most popular stars of the Canadian men's Olympic hockey team took part in the Paralympic torch relay on Thursday, but organizers say the real stars will be the Paralympians themselves when the Games open in Vancouver on Friday. CBC.ca

A delegation from First Nations University of Canada has been told Ottawa will not restore $7 million in annual funding to the struggling Saskatchewan-based institution. CBC.ca