Canada

‘A lot of angry people’: Cancelled WestJet flights hit 100,000 travellers amid strike

WestJet cancelled nearly 700 flights as of Sunday, upending plans for close to 100,000 passengers as an unexpected strike by plane mechanics entered its third day on the busiest travel weekend of the ...

Jun 30, 2024

Yukon village of Mayo receives evacuation alert due to area wildfire

MAYO, YUKON, CANADA - The tiny Yukon village of Mayo and the surrounding area is on evacuation alert due to wildfire activity. Mayo's Emergency Measures Organization issued the alert Saturday night du...

Jun 30, 2024

Are you proud to be Canadian? Poll suggests fewer people are feeling that way

OTTAWA - A new poll suggests Canadians' sense of national pride is lower than it was a few years ago. Polling firm Leger asked 1,600 people how they're feeling about being Canadian ahead of Canada Day...

Jun 30, 2024

As police increasingly use facial recognition technology, calls grow for regulations

MONTREAL - Some police services in Canada are using facial recognition technology to help solve crimes, while other police forces say human rights and privacy concerns are holding them back from emplo...

Jun 30, 2024

An unknown Newfoundland soldier killed in the First World War is being laid to rest

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The remains of a soldier from Newfoundland killed in the battlefields of France during the First World War will be laid to rest in St. John's Monday, bringing an emotional end to a ...

Jun 30, 2024

Creators urge Ottawa to force disclosure of ‘black box’ AI system training

OTTAWA - Canadian creators and publishers want the government to do something about the unauthorized and usually unreported use of their content to train generative artificial intelligence systems. Bu...

Jun 30, 2024

Pro-Palestinian protesters block CN railroad south of Montreal, four arrested

MONTREAL - Police say about 30 pro-Palestinian protesters blocked a stretch of railroad tracks on Saturday for several hours just south of Montreal. The railway line owned by CN connects Montreal to H...

Jun 29, 2024

NDP's Ashton pays back some money from Christmas trip initially billed to taxpayers

OTTAWA - A New Democrat member of Parliament has paid back a portion of the thousands of dollars she spent on a Christmastime trip for herself and her family that was paid for with public money. The f...

Jun 29, 2024

As fall elections loom, are fears for the state of democracy in Canada justified?

At ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day in France a month ago, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered a warning about the state of democracy. It was, he said on Juno Beach, "still under t...

Jun 29, 2024

French-Montrealers vote in ‘historic’ election amid surge in far-right

MONTREAL - Large numbers of French nationals in Montreal are expected to turn out on Saturday for the first round of France's parliamentary elections, spurred to the ballot box by the threat of a surg...

Jun 29, 2024