Canada

Smith says Alberta's CPP exit campaign to continue despite questions over key number

EDMONTON - Premier Danielle Smith says Alberta will continue its $7.5-million pension-exit advertising and survey campaign, despite acknowledging the key dollar figure is disputed and likely headed to...

Oct 26, 2023

U.S. man sentenced to 20 years in prison for sex exploitation of 3 B.C. children

SURREY, B.C. - An Oregon man has been sentenced to 20 years in a U.S. federal prison for sexually exploiting three British Columbia children. RCMP say 37-year-old Kevin McCarty of Happy Valley, Ore., ...

Oct 26, 2023

AFN chief warns lawyers may 'take advantage' of child-welfare settlement recipients

OTTAWA - The interim national chief of the Assembly of First Nations is urging those eligible to receive compensation from a landmark class-action settlement to be careful that lawyers do not try to t...

Oct 26, 2023

Federal justice minister orders review of Quebec man's 2002 sex assault conviction

OTTAWA - The federal justice minister has ordered the Quebec Court of Appeal to review the conviction of a man found guilty of sexual assault more than two decades ago. Justice Minister Arif Virani sa...

Oct 26, 2023

Liberals to pause carbon pricing on heating oil, beef up heat pump incentives

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that the government will double the carbon price rebate for rural Canadians beginning next April. Trudeau also says there will be a temporary, thre...

Oct 26, 2023

Erin O'Toole says CSIS told him he would remain target of China 'into the future'

OTTAWA - Former Conservative leader Erin O'Toole says Canada's spy agency told him he would be a target of the Chinese government "into the future" for "an undetermined time." O'Toole shared that deta...

Oct 26, 2023

Sikh activists in B.C. emboldened by Trudeau's comments on India ahead of referendum

SURREY, B.C. - Organizers of an upcoming vote on an independent Sikh state say Canada's allegations of India's links to the killing of activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar have significantly bolstered vocal ...

Oct 26, 2023

Chief of defence staff says military must switch gears in increasingly chaotic world

OTTAWA - The chief of the defence staff says in a new message to military members that China and Russia are expansionist powers that don't differentiate between war and peace. Gen. Wayne Eyre has rele...

Oct 26, 2023

Funeral today for Montreal man killed by Hamas in attack on Israel

MONTREAL - A Montreal man who was killed in Israel during a surprise attack by Hamas earlier this month is being remembered as a hero and a "larger-than-life" personality at a funeral today. A casket ...

Oct 26, 2023

B.C. man sentenced to 18 months for 2019 overdose death of 14-year-old Carson Crimeni

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - A man has been sentenced to 18 months in jail with another 18 months of conditional supervisionafter pleading guilty to manslaughter in the high-profile overdose death of a 14-...

Oct 26, 2023