Category Archives: National
Witnesses sue over police response to Quebec’s 2012 election-night shooting
MONTREAL — A technician who witnessed Quebec's fatal election-night shooting 10 years ago testified Wednesday as part of a lawsuit alleging that Montreal police and Quebec provincial police failed to properly secure the event. Jonathan Dubé told the co...
Parliamentary budget officer says one minimum sentence costs $98 million per year
OTTAWA — A study by the parliamentary budget officer has found that one particular mandatory minimum sentence costs a total of $98 million each year. Budget officer Yves Giroux's report focused on costs related to the three-year minimum sentence for po...
Law to help Canada’s news industry, and combat fake news, to be tabled within days
OTTAWA — Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is poised to bring forward legislation within days to make digital giants compensate Canadian media outlets for reusing their news content. The bill is expected to be modelled on a law in Australia making tech...
Red tape risks lives of Afghan interpreters’ families waiting to come to Canada: NDP
OTTAWA — Afghan interpreters who helped the Canadian military say the federal government has lied to them about bringing family members to Canada, and that people have died while waiting for paperwork to be processed. At a press conference Wednesday or...
Mass shooting inquiry: New details about second day of killing rampage revealed
HALIFAX — The morning after a gunman murdered 13 people in northern Nova Scotia, the RCMP were unaware he had resumed his killing until frantic 911 calls started coming in from two locations shortly after 9:30 a.m. By that time, four
Canadian pot producers watch closely as Democrats aim to rewrite U.S. cannabis laws
WASHINGTON — More than three years after legal cannabis arrived in North America on a national scale, Congress is taking another stab at following Canada's lead by ending long-standing federal prohibitions on marijuana in the United States. A meeting W...
Trudeau ‘moved’ by courage of B.C. residential school survivors during visit
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. — A moment of silence for the children who didn't return home from the St. Joseph's Mission Residential School near Williams Lake, B.C., marked the end of a visit Wednesday by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Trudeau walked around
Conservatives support 2030 emissions-reduction target set by Harper, not Trudeau
OTTAWA — Canada's Conservatives continue to reject the target the Liberal government set for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, as the party searches for a new leader who will decide its approach to tackle climate change. On Tuesday, the feder...
Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions and targets, by the numbers
OTTAWA — 730 million tonnes: The calculated annual emissions for Canada in 2019 from the yearly National Inventory Report. 739 million tonnes: The calculated emissions for Canada in 2005. 407 million to 443 million tonnes: 2030 target for emissions to ...
Assessing the costs and benefits of Canada’s 12-year F-35 odyssey
OTTAWA — Then-defence minister Peter MacKay climbed into a fake F-35 cockpit before smiling for the cameras and flashing a thumbs up. The date was July 16, 2010, and MacKay had just announced that Canada was planning to buy a