Canada

Health care, energy costs expected to be focus of premiers meeting in Halifax

HALIFAX - Health care and the effect of carbon pricing measures on the rising cost of living across Canada are slated to take centre stage at today's meeting of the country's premiers and territorial ...

Nov 06, 2023

Vancouver man's family in Gaza ponders whether to stay together so they die together

Bombs had scarcely started falling on the Gaza Strip last month when Omar Mansour's family realized they had a crucial question to resolve: would it be better to face death together or apart? One day ...

Nov 06, 2023

Hundreds of thousands of Quebec public sector workers on strike today

MONTREAL - Hundreds of thousands of Quebec public sector workers are off the job today in the first of a series of one-day strikes. Schools, health care facilities and social services will all be disr...

Nov 06, 2023

No information on status of border crossing as Canadians wait to flee Gaza

Canadians trapped in the Gaza Strip who were previously told they could be allowed out over the weekend will have to wait longer for escape from the besieged Palestinian territory. The Rafah border cr...

Nov 06, 2023

Premiers to focus on energy costs, health care at Halifax meeting of 13 leaders

The effect of carbon pricing measures on the rising cost of living across Canada is slated to take centre stage at this week's meeting of the country's 13 premiers and territorial leaders in Halifax. ...

Nov 05, 2023

Sex offender in 2011 B.C. child abduction wanted Canada-wide

A high-risk sex offender who abducted a three-year-old boy in 2011 is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant after failing to return to his halfway house in Vancouver. Police say 58-year-old Randall Hopley w...

Nov 05, 2023

'Very duped': Indigenous musicians upset over Buffy Sainte-Marie ancestry revelations

Buffy Sainte-Marie, wearing a shining dress and long necklace, was led on the stage by a group of Indigenous people in traditional regalia after she was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame i...

Nov 05, 2023

First Nations seek salmon return to Columbia Basin in new treaty with U.S.

First Nations groups on the Canadian side of the Columbia River Basin are adamant that salmon runs that have long been blocked by dams in the United States must be restored, potentially in a renewed r...

Nov 05, 2023

No movement for Canadians stuck in Gaza after Rafah border crossing closure

OTTAWA - Canadians awaiting word on when they can leave the war-torn Gaza Strip by crossing into Egypt still don't appear to have the green light to begin their journey home. Global Affairs Canada had...

Nov 05, 2023

Demonstrations in support of Gaza planned in at least two dozen Canadian cities

OTTAWA - Demonstrations are set to take place in more than two dozen Canadian cities today, with participants expected to voice support for residents of the Gaza Strip and the deteriorating humanitari...

Nov 04, 2023