Canada

Quebec unveils $603 million five-year plan to protect French language

MONTREAL - Quebec is investing $603 million over the next five years to counter what its French-language minister describes as the decline of the French language in the province. Jean-Franois Roberge ...

Apr 28, 2024

Quebec singer and songwriter Jean-Pierre Ferland dies of natural causes at 89

MONTREAL - Jean-Pierre Ferland, the singer-songwriter who became a fixture of Quebec's cultural landscape over a career that spanned more than six decades, died Saturday at the age of 89. The agency r...

Apr 28, 2024

Quebec liquor board to cull spirits from shelves as local distillers struggle

MONTREAL - The number of microdistilleries in Quebec has boomed in the last decade, growing from less than a dozen to about 70. But a decision by Quebec's liquor corporation to cull up to 200 homegrow...

Apr 28, 2024

What Trudeau's podcast appearances say about the Liberals' next ballot box question

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau knows Canadians aren't listening. He knows his defence against Conservative attacks over his signature climate policy isn't working, at least not yet. But he pla...

Apr 28, 2024

First, she aimed to transform Canada's military culture. The public service is next

OTTAWA - Corporate boardrooms. Military barracks. Federal government offices. They're not locales with a reputation for fostering diversity. Anita Anand has been trying to change that. Ensuring people...

Apr 28, 2024

Transit trips up among seniors since Montreal introduced free fare program, city says

Montreal says public transit trips were up between 15 and 20 per cent among people age 65 and over in the six months after it made the service free for local seniors. The program, which took effect on...

Apr 27, 2024

Workplace safety officials investigating truck driver death at Port of Montreal

Montreal's port authority says a man has died after an apparent accident at one of its wharves. Port of Montreal spokesperson Rene Larouche says the authority was notified of an accident involving a t...

Apr 27, 2024

Woman dies after head-on collision on highway west of Montreal

LACHUTE, Que. - Quebec provincial police say a 51-year-old woman has died after a head-on collision in the town of Lachute, roughly 50 kilometres west of Montreal, early this morning. Police spokesper...

Apr 27, 2024

Haida elder suing Catholic Church and priest, hopes for 'healing and reconciliation'

CALGARY - The lawyer for a residential school survivor leading a proposed class-action defamation lawsuit against the Catholic Church over residential schools says the court action is a last resort. M...

Apr 27, 2024

'The world is too messy for bureaucratic hurdles': Canada still bars Afghanistan aid

Ottawa has plans to finally stop blocking Canadian development aid to Afghanistan this year. But by the time its new system is fully up and running, the Taliban will have been in control of the countr...

Apr 27, 2024