1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (306+ words) OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to meet his counterpart in the United Kingdom for the first time. The Prime Minister’s Office says Carney will meet Andy Burnham in Liverpool during a three-day trip to Europe set to start…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (978+ words) OTTAWA — Canadian politicians are pushing back on U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive orders limiting Canadian businesses’ access to procurement contracts and deploying a new set of tariffs. The five new orders, which will take effect Sept. 29, will completely bar imports…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (610+ words) Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on American goods are now in effect The trade war between Canada and the United States took on a new face today as Ottawa introduces retaliatory tariff measures. New Canadian tariffs of between 15 and 50 per cent kicked…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (140+ words) OTTAWA — Gov. Gen. Louise Arbour will attend the state funeral of Norway’s King Harald V next week. The king died at the age of 89 on Aug. 28 and the funeral is scheduled for Sept. 9 in Oslo. Arbour is postponing an official…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (584+ words) Neeral Patel sent well-wishes to her cousin on his birthday last Wednesday, but she never heard back. Her cousin Ishan Patel was in Nepal at the time, not far from the border with China, where a devastating flash flood ripped…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (715+ words) As police in Kathmandu buried dozens of bodies in multiple trenches, Nepal’s disaster agency said that 1,003 deaths had been counted there, with 3,916 people missing, including 583 foreign nationals. In its latest update, China reported 16 deaths and 546 missing, including 261 foreigners. The scale…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (195+ words) Brig. Gen. Raja Ram Basnet, Nepal’s army spokesman, said authorities intensified their rescue efforts in the disaster zones. “We are working in search and rescue of the stranded people from hills, settlements and river areas,” he said. Multiple foreign rescue…...

2+ week, 20+ hour ago   (967+ words) OTTAWA — Canada needs to make further cuts to the number of temporary residents in the country and generate better tracking data when they leave the country, the head of an expert panel on immigration said. Parisa Mahboubi chairs the C.D....

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (586+ words) Sustained gunfire and explosions were heard overnight into Saturday, including at Niamey’s main airport that houses the military air base and in a district where the presidential palace is located. Security forces were deployed to key locations. By Saturday evening,…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (727+ words) Rescue workers and military personnel have been working around the clock since Wednesday’s disaster, which killed more than 600 people and left about 3,000 missing. Some survivors have been pulled from the mud, while crews continue searching several locations for those still…...