Canada

In the news today: More details emerge about fatal border crossing

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... More details emerge about fatal border crossing The trial of two men accused of human smuggling is expected to...

Nov 20, 2024

Some Canadian cities building temporary housing facilities to accommodate refugees

OTTAWA - A significant increase in the number of refugees and asylum seekers in Canada has prompted some cities to start building temporary housing for new arrivals. The city of Ottawa is working to e...

Nov 20, 2024

'No disrespect to His Majesty': Yukon council refuses to take oath to King

DAWSON CITY, Y.T. - Governance in Yukon's second-largest municipality has been at a standstill since its newly elected mayor and council refused to pledge allegiance to King Charles during their swear...

Nov 20, 2024

Transgender community to gather in remembrance, opposition to Alberta legislation

EDMONTON - Adebayo Chris Katiiti, jailed for being a transgender man in Uganda, was brutally beaten as a child for wearing his brothers' clothes. He says moving to Alberta in 2016 saved his life. "I f...

Nov 20, 2024

Urban salmon return to Metro Vancouver streams to spawn and inspire recovery efforts

BURNABY, B.C. - The metallic screech of a train rolling by. The constant hum of traffic on the nearby Trans-Canada Highway. These are the sounds of the Brunette River in the fall, as it cuts through t...

Nov 20, 2024

Human smuggling trial could hear from survivor of frigid cross-border walk

FERGUS FALLS - The trial of two men accused of human smuggling is expected to soon hear from a migrant who survived a long walk across the Canada-U. S. border in a blizzard. Steve Shand and Harshkumar...

Nov 20, 2024

Bomb cyclone batters B.C. with hurricane-force winds, cutting roads and power

VANCOUVER - Hurricane-force winds of up to 159 km/h have slammed into parts of the British Columbia Coast as a massive storm swirling off Vancouver Island severed highways and cut power to about 225,0...

Nov 20, 2024

B.C. port union challenges constitutionality of labour minister's back-to-work order

VANCOUVER - The union representing port supervisors in British Columbia is formally challenging the legal and constitutional authority of the federal labour minister to order them back to work. In a l...

Nov 19, 2024

Montreal mayor supports Polytechnique survivors' call for complete assault weapon ban

MONTREAL - Montreal Mayor Valrie Plante is lending her support to a gun control advocacy group as it urges the federal government to complete a list of banned assault-style weapons before a federal bu...

Nov 19, 2024

NDP MP calls on Boissonnault to resign over false claims to Indigenous identity

OTTAWA - A Mtis member of Parliament is calling on the employment minister to resign over what he calls harmful false claims to Indigenous ancestry. Randy Boissonnault, who had said his great-grandmot...

Nov 19, 2024