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Canada ranks near bottom in environmental taxes, OECD says
Motorists cross the Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver, B.C., in this file photo. A new OECD report says Canada lags most other member countries in terms of putting a price on pollution through taxation.
Space station gets 3 new astronauts, making full house again
In a Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017 photovprovided by NASA, from front left, NASA’s Scott Tingle, Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, and Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency joined, from back left; Expedition 54 Commander Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos and crewmates Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba of NASA aboard the International Space Station when the hatches between the Soyuz spacecraft and the orbiting laboratory officially opened Tuesday. (NASA via AP)
Enough with your excuses for not investing globally
Rob Carrick
Banking panel kills Trump nominee to lead Export-Import Bank
Highlights of GOP compromise bill to overhaul tax code
Ridley Scott hasn't heard from Spacey after film replacement
Christopher Plummer, left, and director Ridley Scott arrive at the world premiere of "All the Money in the World" at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater on Monday, Dec. 18, 2017, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
'Ruthless killer' who disguised Saskatoon hanging as suicide jailed
Marquis de Sade text named French treasure, auction cancelled
The original manuscript of "The 120 Days of Sodom or the School of Libertinage," by French writer Marquis de Sade is on display prior to the auction of the Aristophil Collections, in Paris, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017. Top lots in an auction of rare manuscripts to be held this week in Paris have been withdrawn from the sale after the French state prohibited them from leaving the national territory and showed interest in buying them. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
Lawyer, 72, sues after court officers slammed him to floor
After Music Row rejection, Walker Hayes made a DIY studio
In this Dec. 11, 2017 photo, country singer Walker Hayes poses for a portrait in New York to promote his latest album, “boom.” (Photo by Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP)
Parents upset over surprise Ivanka Trump high school visit
Police searching for man they said shot at officer
North Carolina pilot dies after weekend plane crash
PBS to air BBC show with Katty Kay in Rose time slot
Turkey's leader calls for backing of UN motion on Jerusalem
Aecon shareholders approve $1.5-billion takeover by Chinese company
Aecon road crews work on Highway 407, near Highway 427 in Toronto, in this file photo
State police: Leader's departure not Charlottesville-related
FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2017 file photo, people fly into the air as a vehicle is driven into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. James Alex Fields Jr., the man accused of driving into the crowd demonstrating against a white nationalist protest, killing one person and injuring many more, has a preliminary court hearing Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017. (Ryan M. Kelly/The Daily Progress via AP, File)
Suspect in UK air base incident kept on psychiatric hold
Fresh protest in Romania over legal system changes
Romanian magistrates stand holding copies of their professional oath during a silent protest outside the Bucharest Court of Appeal in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, Dec. 18, 2017. Hundreds of Romanian judges and prosecutors staged protests around the country over planned modifications to the legal system they say will hamper prosecutions. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Aecon shareholders vote to approve takeover offer by Chinese company
The corporate logo of Aecon Group Inc. is shown. Aecon shareholders have voted overwhelmingly to approve a $1.5-billion takeover of the Canadian company by a Chinese firm. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO
Veteran receiver Dressler signs one-year extension with Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Winnipeg Blue Bombers wide receiver Weston Dressler runs the ball during first half CFL action in Regina on Sunday, September 4, 2016. Dressler has agree to terms on a new contract with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.Dressler was scheduled to become a free agent in February. Full Story THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mark Taylor
Oil sands workcamps try to sell luxury amid industry downturn
The Suncor oil sands facility seen from a helicopter near Fort McMurray, Alta., Tuesday, July 10, 2012.
U.S. markets
Police sergeant fired for ordering officer to use Taser
Global shares mixed in listless trading on Wall Street slip
FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 13, 2015, file photo, the American flag flies above the Wall Street entrance to the New York Stock Exchange. Stocks are opening slightly higher on Wall Street, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017, as gains for banks outweigh losses in technology companies. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
A look at Canadian Press Newsmakers of the Year
Gord Downie performs at WE Day in Toronto on Wednesday, October 19, 2016. Downie has been named The Canadian Press newsmaker of the year for 2017THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
Crash kills one person, two injured on Vancouver's Burrard Bridge
Neighbor of FBI agent gets jail time after harassing him
Ta-Nehisi Coates deletes widely read Twitter account
Gord Downie chosen as top Canadian Press newsmaker for second consecutive year
Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie arrives at We Day on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on July 2, 2017.
Saudi Arabia heralds biggest spending plans yet amid deficit
FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2017 file photo photo provided by the Saudi Press Agency, King Salman attends a swearing in ceremony in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Saudi King Salman has delivered an annual speech outlining his government's priorities for the coming year on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017. Priorities include focusing on the economy and emphasizing the government's anti-corruption crackdown as the country prepares to distribute cash assistance to low-income families as part of a new welfare system ahead of more subsidy cuts. (Saudi Press Agency, via AP, File)
Luxury still sells as vacancy rates rise in Alberta's oilsands workcamp sector
The Suncor oil sands facility seen from a helicopter near Fort McMurray, Alta., Tuesday, July 10, 2012. The oilsands boom that became a bust hits home when driving by empty workforce accommodation camps along highways near Fort McMurray in northern Alberta. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
SNC-Lavalin names former federal bureaucrat Kevin Lynch as chairman
Kevin Lynch
Gord Downie chosen as the Canadian Press Newsmaker for second consecutive year
Gord Downie performs at WE Day in Toronto on Wednesday, October 19, 2016. Downie has been named The Canadian Press newsmaker of the year for 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
New year to mark start of unofficial Ontario election countdown
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne poses for a photograph at Queen's Park in Toronto on Monday, December 18, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Trudeau, Scheer put families on their Christmas cards
The front of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's holiday card. Justin Trudeau and Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer are going with a family theme on their Christmas — or holiday — cards this year. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO
11 arrested in Croatia, Slovenia in sports corruption case
House speaker says he's not leaving post 'anytime soon'
House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., center, arrives for a meeting of House Republicans on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017. Republicans are ready to ram a $1.5 trillion tax package through Congress, giving President Donald Trump the legislative win he desperately wants. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Honduras president calls for peace following re-election
Honduran presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla holds a press conference in Washington, on Tuesday Dec. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Luis Alonso Lugo)
Church pastor, wife, convicted of fraud
SNC-Lavalin names former top federal bureaucrat Kevin Lynch as company chairman
SNC-Lavalin has selected former top federal bureaucrat Kevin Lynch, shown here in this undated handout image, as its new chairman. The Montreal-based engineering and construction firm (TSX:SNC) says Lynch will take over on Jan. 1, replacing Lawrence Stevenson who is retiring. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-CNW Group/SNC-Lavalin-Matthew Plexman
Markets Right Now: Technology, banks pull US stocks lower
German cartel office says Facebook abusing data collection
Senate Russia probe looking into 2016 candidate Jill Stein
FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2016 file photo, Jill Stein, the presidential Green Party candidate, speaks at a news conference in front of Trump Tower in New York. Jill Stein says she’s cooperating with a Senate intelligence committee probe into Russian interference in the election. Stein ran against President Donald Trump as a member of the Green Party. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Man accused of choking his dog, punching it in ribs
Croatia, Slovenia remain deadlocked in border dispute
Egypt court sentences presidential hopeful to 6 years
Elk herd to be thinned in Wind Cave National Park
Honda to unveil new compact gas-electric hybrid sedan
This photo provided by Honda shows the Honda Insight prototype, a new five-passenger gas-electric hybrid sedan which the automaker says it will unveil at the Detroit auto show in January 2018. (Courtesy of Honda via AP)
Rome's Christmas tree 'Mangy' needled for heavy shedding
Relative moving vehicle strikes, kills toddler in driveway
Canada and U.S. to host North Korea meeting in Vancouver next month
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland speaks with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson before a meeting in Ottawa, Tuesday December 19, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Latest: California fire now second-largest in state history
Man who killed state trooper in 1974 is released on parole
Shiffrin credits strong season's start to more aggression
Judge rejects petition to fire executor of Prince's estate
Gatlin fires coach, 'shocked' by newspaper allegations
FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017 file photo, U.S. sprinter Justin Gatlin arrives for a training session ahead of the World Athletics Championships in London. World 100-meter champion Justin Gatlin says he has fired coach Dennis Mitchell following an undercover investigation that appeared to show people linked to the sprinter offering to supply performance-enhancing drugs. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)
Ex-Odebrecht CEO, symbol of Brazil graft probe, leaves jail
In this March 26, 2017 file photo, people march against corruption and in support of the Car Wash investigation on Copacabana beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Marcelo Odebrecht, one of the most prominent people convicted in Latin America's largest corruption scandal left prison Tuesday, Dec. 19, for house arrest after serving two-and-a-half years behind bars at a time when many Brazilians are becoming disillusioned with the graft investigation once hailed as a political game-changer. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)
Magna to realign divisions; report sales, earnings for key segments
A worker in the Magna plant in Puebla, Mexico on Jan. 22, 2015.
New data shows foreign owners make up small amount of home, condo owners
A sold sign is shown in front of west-end Toronto homes Sunday, April 9, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graeme Roy
Politics Briefing: What all the parties could agree on this year
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets with Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland at State at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017. The North Korea nuclear crisis will be one of several topics of conversation when Tillerson makes his first visit to Canada as secretary of state on Tuesday, American officials said.
Economists’ biggest mistakes of 2017
Scott Barlow
Abu Dhabi's Louvre to unveil Leonardo painting 'very soon'
Procurement minister cuts first steel for third Arctic patrol vessel
Public Services Minister Carla Qualtrough, left, and Treasury Board President Scott Brison sport ball caps at an Irving Shipbuilding ceremony where the first piece of steel was cut on the third Arctic patrol vessel, named in honour of Chief Petty Officer Max Leopold Bernays, in Halifax on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017. Irving is building five to six Arctic patrol vessels under Ottawa’s national shipbuilding strategy. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
Panthers sale sparks buzz in political, business circles
Austria walks back double-citizenship plan after Italy balks
Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache of the right-wing Freedom Party, FPOE, and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz of the conservative People's Party, OEVP, from left, arrive for a news conference after a cabinet meeting at the federal chancellery in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
Pot smoker accused of threat pleads guilty to firearm charge
Tenet looks to sell Conifer business, cut more costs
Audi recalls over 52,000 cars; fuel lines can leak
US current account trade deficit drops 19.2 per cent in Q3
In this Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017, photo, container ships are unloaded at the Port of Oakland in Oakland, Calif. On Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017, the Commerce Department reports on the U.S. current account deficit, the broadest measure of trade, for the July-September quarter. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
US housing starts rose 3.3 per cent in November
In this Wednesday, March 1, 2017, photo, new home construction is underway in a housing plan in Zelienople, Pa. On Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017, the Commerce Department reports on the pace of U.S. home construction in November. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Tuesday’s analyst upgrades and downgrades
A CIBC sign is shown in the financial district in Toronto in this file photo.
U.S. auto-content NAFTA demands based on faulty data: study
Trucks head to U.S. customs after crossing the Ambassador Bridge that connects Detroit, and Windsor.
The Latest: Spanish PM Rajoy appeals to voters in Catalonia
It's Canada and U.K. v. U.S. airplane giant at trade tribunal hearing
Aurora Cannabis inks deal with waste treatment firm Micron Waste Technologies
Cannabis seedlings are seen at the new Aurora Cannabis facility Friday, November 24, 2017 in Montreal. Aurora Cannabis Inc. has signed a non-binding deal to make an investment in Micron Waste Technologies Inc., which makes organic waste treatment systems. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
Teen is 5th suspect in Ohio shooting that killed boy, hurt 5
Jack in the Box selling Qdoba for $305 million
FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2008 file photo, patrons of a Jack-In-the-Box gather in its parking lot in Los Angeles. Jack in the Box is selling the Qdoba restaurant chain to private-equity firm Apollo Global Management for $350 million in cash. The chain of Mexican restaurants has been a sore spot on Jack in the Box’s overall business, posting same-store sales declines throughout 2017. The San Diego burger chain has been weighing its options with Qdoba for most of this year. The deal is expected to close by April 2018.(AP Photo/Ric Francis)
Mississippi boy dials 911 to report Grinch trying to steal Christmas
Former university groundskeeper facing more sexual assault charges
UN refugee chief urges the world to spend more on Africa
U.N. refugee chief Filippo Grandi, center-right, visits a hospital as he tours Dadaab refugee camp, which currently hosts over 230,000 inhabitants, in northern Kenya Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017. Grandi said Tuesday that the world must do more to help millions of refugees across sub-Saharan Africa, which hosts more than a quarter of the world's refugees. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
UK lawmakers criticize Twitter for failing to remove abuse
Superintendent's departure not Charlottesville-related: state police
This April 17, 2007, file photo shows Virginia State Police Col. Steve Flaherty on the campus of Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Va.
Iran summons Swiss envoy over missile remarks by US diplomat
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley walks in front recovered segments of an Iranian rocket during a press briefing at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017, in Washington. Haley says "undeniable" evidence proves Iran is violating international law by funneling missiles to Houthi rebels in Yemen. Haley unveiled recently declassified evidence including segments of missiles launched at Saudi Arabia from Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
Case of Calgary man with dementia highlights challenges courts face as population ages
Family and friends comfort each other during a press conference announcing a murder charge laid against Fred Van Zuiden in Calgary on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016.
Charges filed in Croatia after death of Afghan migrant girl
Migrants walk on train tracks near the western Serbian town of Sid, near Serbia's border with European Union member Croatia, Monday, Dec. 18, 2017. The family of a six-year-old Afghan migrant girl who was killed by a train on the Serbia-Croatia border has filed charges against the Croatian police for forcing them back over the frontier. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
Couple who provided video of suspect want piece of reward
A surveillance camera installed on the Southeast Seminole Heights house of Patrick and Kelly Halladay is seen on Monday, Dec. 18, 2017 in Tampa, Fla. This is one of the four surveillance cameras that recorded video of the suspected Seminole Heights killer on Oct. 9, 2017. The Holladays had turned the video to authorities and say they should have received a share of the $110,000 in reward money. (Alessandra Da Pra/Tampa Bay Times via AP)
The Latest: Senate passes tax bill, sending it back to House
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., accompanied at right by Secretary for the Majority Laura Dove, walks to his office from the chamber as Republicans in the House and Senate plan to pass the sweeping $1.5 trillion GOP tax bill on party-line votes, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Dec. 18, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Police say woman stabbed roommate during argument over candy
Fort Ticonderoga gets state grant to restore historic house
What every Canadian investor needs to know today
Judge apologizes to wrongly convicted Baltimore men
UN says air strikes killed at least 136 civilians in Yemen over 11 days
United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen Jamie McGoldrick gives a press conference in the capital Sanaa on Dec. 19, 2017.
The Latest: Airport outage blocks team's shot in Puerto Rico
Alexis Canete rests on his luggage as he waits in the Delta ticket line to get back home to Cuba from his visit to Tennessee on Monday Dec. 18, 2017 at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, the day after a massive power outage brought operations to halt. Power was restored at the world's busiest airport after a massive outage Sunday afternoon that left planes and passengers stranded for hours, forced airlines to cancel more than 1,100 flights and created a logistical nightmare during the already-busy holiday travel season. (John Spink/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
Macron slams Assad for comments on France supporting terror
UN: Israel probe of Palestinian amputee's death insufficient
UN to pursue rebels who killed 14 peacekeepers in Congo
Jean-Pierre Lacroix, United Nations peacekeeping chief, inspects an honor guard upon his arrival at Mavivi airport in Beni eastern Congo, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017. The United Nations peacekeeping chief says the U.N. mission in Congo will pursue the Allied Democratic Forces rebels who killed 15 peacekeepers there earlier this month. (AP Photo/Al-Hadji Kudra Maliro)
$75M gift will help Ohio centre address mental health issues
Officials separate couple after 73 years: 'I listened to my mother weep'
Herbert and Audrey Goodine kiss in a handout photo from their daughter Dianne Phillips. An elderly New Brunswick couple bid a tearful goodbye this week, separated just days before Christmas after 73 years together. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Dianne Phillips MANDATORY CREDIT
Falcons stay close in NFC South, beat Buccaneers 24-21
Quarterback Matt Ryan of the Atlanta Falcons drops back to pass against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the second quarter on Dec. 18, 2017 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla.
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