A retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer accused of smuggling narwhal tusks was sentenced Wednesday to five years, two months in a U.S. prison for related money-laundering counts. Gregory Logan, 60, of St. John, New Brunswick, smuggled about 300 tusks valued at $1.5 million to ...
Half of the vertebrate populations in Canada are in staggering decline, despite the country's vast outback, according to a WWF report Thursday that highlighted threats to beluga whales and caribou. The World Wildlife Fund in its Living Planet Report pointed to 451 shrinking animal populations ...
U.S. officials are aggressively investigating what caused symptoms ranging from hearing loss to mild brain injury in 21 people linked to the U.S. Embassy in Cuba, a State Department official said on Thursday. Spokeswoman Heather Nauert told a briefing that no new incidents had been ...
Edith Windsor, a widow who brought a Supreme Court case that that struck down parts of a federal law that banned same-sex marriage and led to federal recognition for gay spouses, died Tuesday. She was 88. Windsor died in New York, said her lawyer, Roberta ...
A major American credit reporting agency entrusted to safeguard personal financial information said Thursday that hackers looted its system, in a colossal breach that could affect nearly half the U.S. population as well as people in Britain and Canada. Equifax said that a hack it ...
On a sparsely populated island off the coast of the northwestern United States, more than a hundred environmental activists gathered last weekend to practice seaborne drills to disrupt construction on Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd.'s Westridge crude oil terminal. In kayaks and sailboats they practiced forming ...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday the dismantling and remaking of the government's "colonial" era apparatus to better deal with Canada's 600 indigenous tribes and their treaty rights. Canada's indigenous and northern affairs ministry will be split in two and senior members of Trudeau's Cabinet ...
A pastor freed this month after more than two years' detention in a North Korean prison said Sunday that he likely owed his life to his Canadian citizenship. "If I'm just Korean, maybe they kill me," Korean-born pastor Hyeon Soo Lim told Canadian public broadcaster ...
President Donald Trump is accusing Canada and Mexico of being "very difficult" at the negotiating table over the North American Free Trade Agreement, and threatening anew to terminate the deal. Trump tweeted on Sunday morning that NAFTA is the "worst trade deal ever made." Trump said ...
Canadian citizens who do not identify as male or female will soon be able to mark "X" on their passports and other identity documents, the government said Thursday. From August 31, citizens will be able to add an "observation" to their passports stating their sex ...
No fewer than 16 Americans were hurt in what has previously been dubbed an acoustic attack on the U.S. mission in Cuba, the State Department said Thursday. Spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters that the attacks appear to have ceased, but that several U.S. government employees ...
A doctor who evaluated American and Canadian diplomats working in Cuba diagnosed them with conditions as serious as mild traumatic brain injury and damage to the central nervous system, CBS News said on Wednesday, citing medical records it reviewed. The diplomats had complained of symptoms ...
