Canada

Bill Graham Steps Down

Bill Graham, the longtime Liberal MP who was interim leader of the party for most of 2006, made his departure from federal politics official on Tuesday to a standing ovation from his colleagues in the House of Commons. CBC News A worsening doctor shortage has forced the Saint-Eustache Hospital...

Suicide Bomber Report

Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day says a report that foreign-trained suicide bombers have been dispatched to Canada is a public relations move by a terrorist group that knows it's losing the fight in Afghanistan. CBC News Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is before a Senate committee defending...

Day - Overhaul RCMP

The government has accepted all the recommendations from an investigation into the RCMP's pension fund — a report that called for major changes to the force's governance and culture, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said Monday. CBC News The Defence Department has more than doubled the...

Canada No-Fly List

Canada's no-fly list comes into effect Monday as transportation experts and privacy advocates warn that checking domestic airline passengers' names against a list of people deemed to be potential threats could lead to abuses. CBC News Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day has called a news...

Lightning Kills Alta Man

A lightning strike described as a "kind of freak accident" has killed a man and injured six others at an Alberta campground, the RCMP said Saturday. They were at Pigeon Lake Provincial Park, about 105 kms southwest of Edmonton, taking shelter under a tree when they were hit, Wetaskiwin RCMP...

Kids Need Airport ID

Canada will become the only country in the world to require 12-year-olds to show identification to board an airplane under new security rules that come into effect on Monday. These new regulations are raising concerns among some airline officials about disappointed children and angry parents if...

Cash on the go

Premier Dalton McGuinty has waved a $17.5 billion wand across the transit wishes of the Golden Horseshoe, including Toronto's $6 billion Transit City light rail strategy. In what the Liberal government clearly hopes will be a roadmap for re-election, McGuinty announced funding yesterday for 52...

PQ Table Gun Control

The Quebec government is tabling its promised gun control legislation today in the legislature. It's in response to last fall's shooting rampage at Dawson College. CTV News Embattled Liberal Sen. Raymond Lavigne, who was temporarily kicked out of the Liberal caucus last year for allegedly...

Canada Abandons Khadr

Canada stands almost alone as a country that has "abandoned" its citizens in the U.S. military's Guantanamo Bay prison, Amnesty International charged Thursday, presenting an open letter demanding Ottawa act to repatriate Omar Khadr. CBC News Toronto police have arrested 95 suspects and laid more...

Gov't Collective Surplus

Statistics Canada says governments at all levels racked up a collective surplus of $29 billion in the fiscal year ending March 31, a billion more than in 2006. CNEWS Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams says he isn't ruling out the possibility of joining his Saskatchewan counterpart in a lawsuit...

Saskatchewan Will Sue

Saskatchewan will launch a lawsuit against the federal government over equalization payments next week, Premier Lorne Calvert said Wednesday. Calvert said a lawsuit isn't his preferred way to deal with the dispute over the federal program, but he tried negotiations and calling on Saskatchewan MPs...

Toronto Police Raids

Dozens of people were arrested by Toronto police early Wednesday morning in a series of raids targeting suspected street gangs in several neighbourhoods. The raid was carried out with the help of 100 officers from other regions, including Halton, Peel, York, Durham and Waterloo, and as far away as...

Scandal Payback

A former ad executive implicated in the federal sponsorship scandal has agreed to pay Ottawa $1 million to avoid an expensive civil lawsuit. Lawyers for Claude Boulay, former president of Groupe Everest, recently reached an out of court settlement with the federal government for $1 million. CBC...

Atlantic Accord Fight

Premier Rodney MacDonald is taking his rally against the federal budget to Ottawa Tuesday and refuses to rule out legal action against Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government in a bitter dispute over equalization deals. CBC News A Canadian soldier was killed and two others wounded in a...

PM Take Us To Court

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador can take his Conservative government to court over claims that it went back on its word and changed offshore-oil revenue agreements. CBC News Police in London, Ont., have determined that the deaths of a high-ranking...

Rafters Still Missing

Two men are believed dead in the Bow River after three boats capsized on the city waterway last night. The 28-year-olds from Quebec were rafting down the raging river with seven friends when they came across the weir just before the bridge spanning Blackfoot Tr. CNEWS Nova Scotia Premier Rodney...

Flood Victims Boil Water

A boil water advisory has been issued for areas downstream of Terrace as residents returned to their homes in the flooded northwestern B.C. city, while several other communities across the province stayed on the alert for rising waters.CBC News As Environment Minster John Baird touts the...

Shooting Leaves One Dead

One person was killed and three others were wounded Saturday in a daytime multiple shooting in northwest Toronto, police said. The shooting occurred about 3 p.m. ET on a residential street in Rexdale, police said.CBC News As the flood threat eased in northwestern B.C., some residents of the...

Harper Defends Canada

Prime Minister Stephen Harper defended Canada's aid for Africa after development activists accused him and other world leaders of cynically short-changing the millions of poor on the troubled continent.Toronto Star On Tuesday morning Oumou Toure, a 24-year old native of Guinea in West Africa,...

Big Win For Unions

In a case that pitted B.C. health unions against highly contentious labour legislation, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday that the collective bargaining process is protected by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In a 6-1 decision, the high court threw out sections of British Columbia's Bill...