Category Archives: Canada

VANCOUVER - The federal government wants to support those who rent their homes with a protection fund, a bill of rights and a plan to give reliable renters credit when they step up to by a home. Prime...

A study suggests climate change will drive a massive shift in the birds, bugs and other critters that live alongside humans in 60 cities across North America. The good news in the newly published pape...

Quebec is proposing a new legal status for unmarried, non-civil union couples with children that would set a framework for splitting family assets if the parents separate. The "parental union" designa...

OTTAWA - Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says big polluters shouldn't be forced to pay for their pollution - they should just emit less. Moe appeared today at a House of Commons committee at the invita...

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives say they won't be taking advice from "so-called experts" when it comes to carbon pricing, after more than 200 economists signed an open letter challenging Pierre Poi...

ZEBALLOS, B.C. - A marine scientist says he expects rescue efforts to help coax a stranded killer whale calf from a shallow lagoon off northern Vancouver Island to continue today despite federal Fishe...

SAINTE-ANNE-DES-MONTS, Que. - Three men died after an apparent avalanche on Quebec's Mount Mdaille on Tuesday during a snowmobiling expedition on the Gasp Peninsula. Quebec provincial police say a fou...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the country posted its highest annual population growth rate in more than six decades last year. The agency says the population grew 3.2 per cent, its fastest pace sinc...

HALIFAX - The RCMP are expected to provide an update today on progress they have made in responding to the inquiry into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting that killed 22 people. The report from RCMP c...

OTTAWA - Members of diaspora communities are slated to testify today as a federal inquiry begins two weeks of hearings into foreign meddling allegations and how the government responded to them. The h...