President Donald Trump's push to create a U.S. space force is being welcomed by military experts in Canada, and the executive director of one defence think-tank says Canada should consider following suit.

Frederic Pelletier is boldly predicting he and his team will get the New Horizons spacecraft exactly where it should be on New Year's Day 1.6 billion kilometres beyond Pluto to rendezvous with a space rock known as Ultima Thule.

One of the women sexually assaulted by former ski coach Bertrand Charest said she was "super-relieved" after Quebec's national assembly adopted a motion Tuesday aimed at making sport abuse-free.