Canada

Yellowknife evacuees hopeful they'll be allowed to return home tomorrow as planned

Yellowknife residents are crossing their fingers that tomorrow's scheduled lifting of a general evacuation order will go ahead as planned and they'll be allowed to return home. The lifting of the orde...

Sep 05, 2023

Trial of 'Freedom Convoy' organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber begins today

OTTAWA - The criminal trial of "Freedom Convoy" organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber begins today, as they answer charges related to their role in the protest that threw Canada's capital city into ...

Sep 05, 2023

Quebec Facebook class action can go ahead after Supreme Court declines to hear appeal

MONTREAL - A class-action lawsuit alleging Facebook illegally allowed advertisers to target users based on their race, age and gender can move forward after the Supreme Court declined to hear an appea...

Sep 05, 2023

Invasive species report outlines costs, solutions for world governments

An international organization has produced a report on alien invasive species which says the global problem costs billions of dollars annually and is, in some cases, being worsened by climate change. ...

Sep 05, 2023

Essential workers head back early to Yellowknife to be ready for everyone else

YELLOWKNIFE - Officials in Yellowknife, as well as staff with the Northwest Territories, are getting ready for the start of a mass migration home of wildfire evacuees that's still on track for Wednesd...

Sep 04, 2023

B.C. Coroner's inquest jury recommends police body cameras after fatal shooting

NELSON, B.C. - A jury in a coroner's inquest into the police killing of a British Columbia man eight years ago says the province and the RCMP should speed up the introduction of police body cameras. T...

Sep 04, 2023

Ontario Premier Doug Ford asks Bank of Canada to halt rate hikes

Another provincial premier is making a direct appeal to the Bank of Canada to stop raising interest rates. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he wrote directly to the central bank's governor Tiff Macklem ...

Sep 04, 2023

Boil water advisory enters fourth day in two Montreal suburbs, lifted in Longueuil

MONTREAL - A boil water advisory affecting more than 60,000 residents of two Montreal suburbs is now in its fourth day, despite being lifted in the neighbouring community that supplies their drinking ...

Sep 04, 2023

'Hold the line:' 'Freedom Convoy' organizers' criminal trial begins Tuesday

OTTAWA - As Tamara Lich was led away from supporters in handcuffs on the snowy streets of Ottawa in 2022, she threw a single phrase over her shoulder. "Hold the line," said the petite figurehead of th...

Sep 04, 2023

Canada set to become strategic partner with ASEAN bloc, symbolizing trade progress

OTTAWA - Canada's status within the Indo-Pacific region is set to get a boost as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations prepares to make Ottawa its latest strategic partner when Prime Minister Jus...

Sep 04, 2023