Ex-Gitmo inmate gets apology, millions from Canada
TORONTO — A former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who pleaded guilty to killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan received an apology and a multimillion-dollar payment from the Canadian government after a court...
View ArticleEx-Guantanamo Bay inmate gets apology, millions from Canada
TORONTO, Canada — A former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who pleaded guilty to killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan received an apology and a multimillion-dollar payment from the Canadian government after a...
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Castro denies responsibility for attacks on U.S. diplomats, clouding...
HAVANA — Raul Castro seemed as rattled as the Americans. The Cuban president sent for the top American official in the country to address grave concerns about a spate of U.S. diplomats harmed in...
View ArticleTrudeau: Canada could stop dealing with Boeing over dispute
TORONTO — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday his government could stop doing business with Boeing if the U.S. company doesn’t drop a trade complaint against Canadian plane maker Bombardier....
View Article“Lone wolf” suspected in Canada terror attack, police chase
TORONTO — A car and knife attack on a police officer outside a football game and a high-speed chase of a moving van that left four people injured was the work of a Somali refugee who was likely working...
View ArticleFirst visible minority wins leadership of fed Canada party
By Rob Gillies, The Associated Press TORONTO — A Sikh man became the first visible minority to claim the leadership of a federal party in Canada on Sunday. Related ArticlesNovember 21, 2017 A...
View ArticleU.S. general says illegal nuclear launch order can be refused
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — The top officer at U.S. Strategic Command said Saturday an order from President Donald Trump or any of his successors to launch nuclear weapons can be refused if that order is...
View ArticleCanada town gets new shock with dead player misidentified
HUMBOLDT, Saskatchewan — Families and friends already stunned by the deaths of 15 players and team personnel for Humboldt’s youth hockey club got a new shock Monday when authorities announced that one...
View ArticleWhite House takes up fight against “back-stabbing” Justin Trudeau
QUEBEC CITY — Bashing the leader of one of America’s venerable allies, the White House escalated its trade tirade and leveled more withering and unprecedented criticism Sunday against Canada’s prime...
View ArticleMan firing into Toronto cafes shoots 14 people, killing 2
TORONTO — A man walked along a Toronto street firing a handgun into restaurants and cafes, shooting 14 people and killing two before dying after an exchange of gunfire with police. Police Chief Mark...
View ArticleToronto attacker identified in mass shooting that killed 2, wounded 13
TORONTO — A man clad in black fired a handgun into restaurants and cafes in a lively Toronto neighborhood, killing a 10-year-old girl and an 18-year-old woman and wounding 13 others in an attack that...
View ArticleCanada, U.S. reach free trade deal with Mexico
TORONTO — Canada and the United States reached a deal Sunday night for Canada to stay in a free trade pact with the U.S. and Mexico. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Canadian Foreign...
View ArticleCanada set to become largest country with legal marijuana sales
DELTA, British Columbia — Mat Beren and his friends used to drive by the vast greenhouses of southern British Columbia and joke about how much weed they could grow there. Years later, it’s no joke. The...
View ArticleCanada now world’s largest legal marijuana marketplace
TORONTO — Ian Power was among the first to buy legal recreational marijuana in Canada but he has no plans to smoke it. He plans to frame it. Canada became the largest country with a legal national...
View ArticleTrump lifts metals tariffs on Mexico, Canada
WASHINGTON — Bogged down in a sprawling trade dispute with U.S. rival China, President Donald Trump took steps Friday to ease tensions with America’s allies — lifting import taxes on Canadian and...
View ArticleCalifornia police say Raptors president Masai Ujiri shoved, hit deputy
SAN FRANCISCO — A California police agency will pursue a misdemeanor battery charge against Toronto Raptors President Masai Ujiri after the executive was accused of shoving and hitting a sheriff’s...
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Photo of Justin Trudeau wearing brownface makeup surfaces amid campaign
TORONTO — Canadian leader Justin Trudeau’s campaign for national elections was hit Wednesday by the publication of a yearbook photo showing him in brownface makeup at a costume party in 2001. The prime...
View ArticleHockey commentator Don Cherry fired for rant over immigrants
TORONTO — Don Cherry, Canada’s most polarizing, flamboyant and opinionated hockey commentator, was fired Monday for calling immigrants “you people” in a television rant in which he said new immigrants...
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Canadian officials accidentally push nuke alert to millions
TORONTO — People throughout the Canadian province of Ontario awoke Sunday to a cellphone alert warning them of an “incident” at a nuclear plant just east of Toronto — only to later be told the message...
View ArticleSophie Grégoire Trudeau tests positive for new coronavirus
TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s wife has tested positive for the new coronavirus, his office announced Thursday night. It said Sophie Grégoire Trudeau was felling well and would...
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