OTTAWA —U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration agreed Friday to drop its punitive and controversial tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum, ending a bitter dispute between historic allies and removing a key obstacle to ratifying the new North American trade pact. Canada and the U.S. both say they will now work together in the coming weeks […]
OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen is doing away with a policy implemented under the Harper government that aimed to tackle a large backlog of refugee claims by limiting rights for asylum-seekers from certain “safe” countries — a policy Hussen says created inequity in Canada’s asylum system. The policy divided refugee claimants into different categories, depending […]
TORONTO — When Amal Qayum works on her online social science class, she usually can’t connect to the spotty internet at her Niagara Falls high school. Instead, the Grade 12, straight-A student at Westlane Secondary School links her personal laptop to her phone data, despite the school touting a specialized technology learning stream. The plan […]
A staffer for a federal minister took artistic liberties Wednesday with the Ontario government’s anti-carbon tax TV ad, a video that many observers said took liberties with the facts. “Fixed a few things in [Premier Doug Ford]’s climate change attack ad,” Braeson Holland, press secretary to Minister Maryam Monsef, wrote on Twitter. “The federal […]
BEIJING — China has formally arrested two Canadian citizens it’s been holding since December in an apparent effort to pressure Canada into releasing a Chinese telecom executive. The move brings the two men, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, closer to trial on vaguely defined state security charges. Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says the government […]
OTTAWA — Canada’s foreign ministry says it’s disappointed by the Philippines’ decision to recall top diplomats over festering trash. The department says Canada has “repeatedly conveyed” to the Philippines government that it is committed to ship and dispose of Canadian garbage that’s been stuck in a Philippine port for nearly six years. “Canada is disappointed […]
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — The mother of a young Newfoundland girl says she’s relieved a social media company has disabled a site that used images of her dead daughter to promote an anti-vaccination campaign. Holly Denine recently came across a Facebook page displaying a photo of her daughter Nevaeh Denine, with text that falsely stated […]
VANCOUVER — A Canadian was among at least four people killed when two sightseeing planes crashed in mid-air in Alaska, the federal government confirmed Tuesday as investigators began working to piece together the cause of the tragedy. Four bodies were recovered and two people were missing after the float planes carrying cruise ship tourists collided […]
The family of a black Ontario teen is suing a Toronto-area school board, alleging officials at his high school failed to properly investigate and prevent months of racist bullying and attacks by white students. In a statement of claim filed last week, the family says the teen, identified only as E.H., was the target of […]
OTTAWA — The chair of the oversight committee tasked with reviewing Canada’s national security and intelligence agencies sighed when asked if a report probing foreign interference threats would be tabled before Parliament breaks for summer. Liberal MP David McGuinty faced questions before a Commons committee for the first time as chair of the National Security […]