Canada

Supports for Gaza Strip evacuees to be determined based on need, minister says

OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Marc Miller says the immigration status and supports available for evacuees who escape from Gaza Strip will have to be determined based on individual circumstances once p...

Nov 09, 2023

Supreme Court to decide whether to hear Ontario election advertising case

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada is set to indicate today whether it will hear an appeal of a ruling that struck down third-party election advertising rules in Ontario. The law in question added m...

Nov 09, 2023

Police say they have dozens of tips about missing B.C. sex offender Randall Hopley

VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver say they've received dozens of tips about the whereabouts of escaped sex offender Randall Hopley, who left a halfway house on Saturday and remains at large. The VPD als...

Nov 08, 2023

Head of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami accuses Labrador group of 'co-opting' Inuit identity

OTTAWA - The president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami is accusing an organization in Labrador of co-opting Inuit identities to secure lands, rights and financial resources. Natan Obed argues that NunatuKa...

Nov 08, 2023

B.C. woman who married ISIS fighter, repatriated from Syrian camp granted peace bond

CHILLIWACK, B.C. - A judge has placed a terrorism peace bond on a British Columbia woman who was repatriated to Canada last year from a Syrian prison camp after she married an ISIS fighter. Chilliwack...

Nov 08, 2023

CP NewsAlert: Bus carrying crew for Shania Twain concert crashes in Saskatchewan

WOLSELEY, Sask. - Shania Twain's management company, Maverick, say members of her concert production crew were on a bus that crashed this morning on an icy highway in southeast Saskatchewan. A fire ch...

Nov 08, 2023

Jurors in Peter Nygard's sexual assault trial begin deliberating their verdict

TORONTO - Jurors at the sexual assault trial of Peter Nygard began their deliberations late Wednesday afternoon, with the fate of the former fashion mogul now resting in their hands. Over several hour...

Nov 08, 2023

Public sector strikes: Quebec nurses, health staff launch two-day walkout

MONTREAL - Quebec health-care workers launched a two-day strike today, the latest group to walk off the job over stalled contract talks with the provincial government. The Fdration interprofessionnell...

Nov 08, 2023

Quebec mayor, 23, resigns mid-mandate because of burnout from managing forest fires

CHAPAIS, Que. - One of Quebec's youngest mayors says she is stepping down because she is suffering burnout from last summer's historic wildfire season. Isabelle Lessard was acclaimed in 2021 as mayor ...

Nov 08, 2023

Elected officials raise alarm about 'terrifying' rise in antisemitism in Canada

OTTAWA - Federal politicians are raising the alarm about what they say is an increase in antisemitism in Canada after a Montreal-area synagogue and a local Jewish organization were hit with firebombs ...

Nov 08, 2023