Canada

Joly to meet with new British counterpart after political seachange in the U.K.

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly is expected to meet with her new British counterpart for the first time since the Labour Party took power in the United Kingdom last week. Joly is in Lond...

Jul 08, 2024

Snap election unlikely in Canada as European campaigns send incumbents packing

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau turned heads internationally in 2021 when he called a snap election during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was a gamble to try and secure a Liberal majority at a time ...

Jul 08, 2024

Environment Canada to provide update on heat wave as temperatures in B.C. remain high

VANCOUVER - Environment Canada says a heat wave brought in by a "ridge of high pressure" is expected to persist over dozens of regions in B.C. until about mid-week. The weather office issued more than...

Jul 08, 2024

Environmental group buys Fraser River island near Chilliwack, B.C., to protect salmon

VANCOUVER - An important salmon habitat will be protected after the multimillion-dollar purchase of an island in British Columbia's lower Fraser River by an environmental organization, with the help o...

Jul 08, 2024

After highway death of a beloved bear in B.C., experts look for lessons

FIELD, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - In the spring of 2023, a Parks Canada team strung electric fence along a section of the Trans Canada Highway from Lake Louise to the B.C.-Alberta boundary. It was par...

Jul 07, 2024

Montreal failed to address school flushing sewage into river for years

MONTREAL - A Montreal elementary school has been inadvertently flushing raw sewage into a nearby river for years, and the city, despite identifying the problem in 2021, is only now taking action to fi...

Jul 07, 2024

Heat warnings expand in B.C. as heat expected to intensify

VANCOUVER - Environment Canada says a heat wave covering more than three dozen regions in British Columbia is expected to intensify today. It says elevated temperatures pose a risk to public health, s...

Jul 07, 2024

Trudeau to tell allies to stay resolute as Ukraine to at centre of NATO summit

WASHINGTON, D. C. - Canada will be reassuring allies of its commitment to the western alliance as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau travels to Washington, D.C., this week to take part in the NATO leaders'...

Jul 07, 2024

B.C. woman faces terrorism charges for travelling to Syria to join ISIS in 2015

VANCOUVER - Mounties in British Columbia say they have charged a 51-year-old woman with two terrorism-related offences after she reportedly travelled to Syria in 2015 to join ISIS. They say Kimberly P...

Jul 06, 2024

‘close associate’ of Quebec gang leader arrested by B.C. RCMP

MONTREAL - Police in Quebec City say a man suspected of having close ties to the leader of Quebec street gang Blood Family Mafia has been arrested. City police spokesperson Pierre-Olivier Lvesque says...

Jul 06, 2024