Canada

A Liberal election promise to overhaul the way asylum claims are handled has been postponed indefinitely despite rising numbers of people seeking refuge in Canada putting the system at risk.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he's ready to start a major renegotiation of the NAFTA, now that his trade czar has achieved his long-awaited confirmation by the U.S. Senate.

Hassan Yussuff was acclaimed and will pursue a second mandate as president of the Canadian Labour Congress.

"The pace at which these issues are arising is clearly accelerating, one of the consequences we believe of the phenomenon of climate change," said Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale.

The confirmation of Trump's trade czar is being held up by a Republican icon and former presidential nominee: John McCain.

"I am acutely aware that the upper chamber is more important than my moral failings," Don Meredith said in a statement.

Climate change is "taking these weather patterns that we’ve seen before and...putting them on steroids, so to speak," said Canadian scientist Katharine Hayhoe. It's impacting us where we live.

Bruce Livesey made history last Friday, becoming the first journalist at an online-only outlet to win a National Newspaper Award.

Thousands of Canadians across the country spent the weekend in a desperate struggle with rising floodwaters caused by unusually persistent rainfall.

More than 130 communities in the province have been hit by the flooding, with an estimated 1,500 homes affected and 850 people forced to evacuate.

Former Canadian diplomat Harry Sterling examines the grim reality of North Korea's nuclear threats and their impact in the region and beyond.

Infrastructure woes have prompted questions about whether the city of Ottawa will be ready to host the Canada Day festivities.

The protectionist approach of U.S. President Donald Trump means European companies are looking to "exploit" new opportunities in Canada, the European Union's agriculture minister says.

Manulife broke Canada's money laundering rules more than 1,200 times. Then it said it could sue the agency that got it to pay a $1.15 million penalty.

Step aside, China and Mexico: Canada is now U.S. President Donald Trump's whipping-boy-du-jour on trade, something he made abundantly clear on Tuesday, April 25, 2017.