Canada

Five things on proposed landmark $32.5-billion tobacco deal

MONTREAL - Three tobacco giants are set to pay out roughly $32.5 billion in a landmark deal that would settle decades of litigation with provinces and individual smokers and their families. The propos...

Oct 18, 2024

Supreme Court tosses driving prohibition against Saskatchewan man in fatal crash

OTTAWA - Canada's top court has struck down a driving prohibition handed to a Saskatchewan man convicted in a fatal highway crash. Braydon Wolfe was driving on the wrong side of a divided highway near...

Oct 18, 2024

NDP says Sask. Party's Moe needs to answer for campaign comment on children

REGINA - The NDP says the Saskatchewan Party's Scott Moe needs to provide answers after a candidate's two children and their use of a school change room were brought up in the election campaign. Moe s...

Oct 18, 2024

AFN votes on way forward after $47.8 billion child welfare reform deal is defeated

OTTAWA - First Nations chiefs have voted in favour of a new negotiation process to reform the child welfare system after a $47.8-billion deal with Canada was defeated Thursday evening at an Assembly o...

Oct 18, 2024

Most Liberal MPs support Trudeau as leader: Freeland

OTTAWA - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says she is "absolutely confident" the majority of Liberal MPs still support Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as leader. Her comments come ahead of what p...

Oct 18, 2024

Defence minister announces nearly $65 million in aid to Ukraine

OTTAWA - National Defence Minister Bill Blair says Canada is sending $64.8 million in military aid to Ukraine. Blair made the announcement at a NATO defence ministers' meeting in Brussels where Ukrain...

Oct 18, 2024

House committee to summon RCMP, ministers over allegations of Indian interference

OTTAWA - The head of the RCMP and Canada's ministers of foreign affairs and public safety will be summoned to testify at a House of Commons committee about the bombshell allegations made this week abo...

Oct 18, 2024

Manitoba second province to sign onto federal school food deal

WINNIPEG - The federal and Manitoba governments have signed a deal to expand food programs. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal government set aside $1 billion over five years in the last budget t...

Oct 18, 2024

Tobacco settlement will not protect future generations from addiction: advocates

The Canadian Cancer Society says a proposed settlement that may see tobacco companies pay out billions of dollars would do little to prevent future generations from becoming addicted to smoking. More ...

Oct 18, 2024

Quebec nurses union votes in favour of new collective agreement

MONTREAL - Quebec's largest nurses union has reached a deal with the provincial government more than a year and a half after their collective agreement expired in March 2023. Fdration interprofessionn...

Oct 18, 2024