Canada

Ottawa pledges $362 million to provinces, cities to temporarily house asylum seekers

OTTAWA - The federal government is pledging an additional $362 million to help provinces and cities temporarily house asylum seekers. Immigration Minister Mark Miller announced the top-up to the feder...

Jan 31, 2024

Investigators recover voice recorder, talk to lone survivor of N.W.T. plane crash

EDMONTON - Investigators probing a plane crash that killed six people in the Northwest Territories have recovered the cockpit voice recorder and talked to the lone survivor. Jon Lee, western regional ...

Jan 31, 2024

Ottawa denies it told CBC to find 3.3 per cent budget cut, as executives have claimed

OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government is denying that it told CBC/Radio-Canada to cut its budget by 3.3 per cent, as executives with the public broadcaster have insisted. The Treasury Board, which o...

Jan 31, 2024

Dentists, hygienists still in the dark on details of federal dental-care plan

OTTAWA - Health Minister Mark Holland says the government is still working out how much dentists will be reimbursed as part of its new dental program, just months before the program is set to start ac...

Jan 31, 2024

Time to revisit ethics rules around gifts, Tory MP says after Trudeau Jamaica trip

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Michael Barrett says what he calls the "status quo" is not working when it comes to the rules that govern gifts to public office holders. Barrett, his party's ethics critic, s...

Jan 31, 2024

Land before dinosaurs: Fossils from Permian era exposed in P.E.I. after Fiona storm

FREDERICTON - Post-tropical storm Fiona has revealed traces of a time before dinosaurs, preserved in the rock and sandstone of Prince Edward Island and exposed in the tempest's wake. In September 2022...

Jan 31, 2024

Farmers anxious as carbon price carve out bill faces uncertain future

OTTAWA - Canadian farmers may have to wait months to find out if they'll owe thousands of dollars for carbon pricing this year. Legislation designed to exempt farms from the levy on natural gas and pr...

Jan 31, 2024

Montreal firefighter drowning: Safety board says fire department lacked rescue plan

MONTREAL - The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says a lack of planning among Montreal fire department officials contributed to the October 2021 fatal capsizing of a rescue boat on the St. Lawren...

Jan 31, 2024

Trudeau says Ottawa 'actively working' to find missing Palestinian Canadian in Gaza

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government is "actively engaged" after a Palestinian Canadian was reported missing in the Gaza Strip. Mansour Shouman was in the region to help document...

Jan 31, 2024

Conservatives get more than $35M in donations during Poilievre's first year as leader

OTTAWA - The Conservative Party of Canada raised more than $35 million during Pierre Poilievre's first full year as leader - and the federal Liberals brought in less than half that amount. The party s...

Jan 31, 2024