Canada

B.C. conditions are magic for mushrooms in bumper season for fungi, tasty and toxic

VANCOUVER - Mushrooms large and small, tasty and toxic, are popping up across British Columbia this year in what experts say is a bumper season for fungi. B.C. forest ecologist and mycologist Andy Mac...

Nov 04, 2023

Air Canada admits it violated disability regulations in case of B.C. man

VANCOUVER - Air Canada has acknowledged it violated Canadian disability regulations and apologized to a British Columbia man who uses a wheelchair, after he was forced to drag himself off a flight in ...

Nov 03, 2023

Supporters march in solidarity after arrests of Vancouver safe drug supply advocates

VANCOUVER - Advocates for a safe drug supply gathered in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside to denounce the recent arrests of the founders of the Drug User Liberation Front. The Vancouver Police Department...

Nov 03, 2023

Man grabbed officer's gun before deadly shooting in Saskatchewan: police watchdog

ESTEVAN, Sask. - Saskatchewan's police watchdog says a 19-year-old man grabbed an officer's gun while he was getting his arrest photo taken, and an officer was shot and wounded. The Saskatchewan Serio...

Nov 03, 2023

Supreme Court rules mandatory minimum sentences for child luring are unconstitutional

OTTAWA - Canada's top court has ruled that applying mandatory minimum sentences to the offence of child luring is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court of Canada found in a six-to-one decision released ...

Nov 03, 2023

CP NewsAlert: Mary Ellen Turpel-Laford removed from Order of Canada

OTTAWA - Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, a high-profile lawyer and child-rights advocate embroiled in a controversy surrounding her claims to Indigeneity, has been removed from the Order of Canada at her ow...

Nov 03, 2023

Canadians still not cleared to leave Gaza, Blair says movement likely in coming days

Canadians could be allowed to leave the Gaza Strip in "the coming days," Defence Minister Bill Blair said Friday, but shared no firm timeline as Canadians faced another day of being left off the list....

Nov 03, 2023

CP NewsAlert: New Brunswick Premier Higgs says he won't call an election this year

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs says he won't call an election this year, ending weeks of speculation that the governing Progressive Conservatives would go to the polls almost a year ...

Nov 03, 2023

McGill says Quebec tuition hike threatens future of Schulich School of Music

MONTREAL - McGill University says Quebec's $8,000 tuition increase for out-of-province students threatens the future of the renowned Schulich School of Music. Principal Deep Saini said Thursday that e...

Nov 03, 2023

Conservation deal aims to protect 30 per cent of B.C. land by 2030

VANCOUVER - An environmental agreement to protect 30 per cent of British Columbia's land by 2030 was signed today between the federal and British Columbia governments and the Indigenous-led First Nati...

Nov 03, 2023