Canada

'Persistent' bears force 160 firefighters to pull out of B.C. Interior camp

GOLD BRIDGE, B.C. - About 160 firefighters battling a blaze in the British Columbia Interior have had to pull out of their camp after they were subjected to what the BC Wildfire Service calls "persist...

Aug 31, 2023

Federal Liberals appoint interim ethics commissioner after six-month vacancy

Ottawa has appointed an interim ethics watchdog, more than six months after the last permanent commissioner retired. The Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner released a statement...

Aug 31, 2023

Ongoing cost-of-living crisis should trigger another housing benefit payment: Singh

OTTAWA - The federal government needs to issue another $500 benefit payment for low-income families struggling to keep a roof over their heads, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Thursday. Singh was in Soo...

Aug 31, 2023

Government still reviewing ways to respond to Emergencies Act inquiry recommendations

OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc says the government is working on a new approach to protect the security of critical trade and transportation corridors in response to recommendations f...

Aug 31, 2023

CP NewsAlert: Man in mass stabbing at B.C. library gets life, no parole for 15 years

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - A man who killed a woman and wounded six other people in a mass stabbing at a library in North Vancouver, B.C., has received a life sentence with no chance of parole for 15 yea...

Aug 31, 2023

B.C. officer who assaulted UBC nursing student receives conditional discharge

KELOWNA, B.C. - The BC Prosecution Service has confirmed a Mountie who pleaded guilty to assaulting a University of British Columbia student during a wellness check in Kelowna has received a condition...

Aug 31, 2023

B.C. Premier Eby calls on Bank of Canada to halt interest rate hikes

VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier David Eby is calling on the Bank of Canada to halt further interest rate hikes. In a letter today to Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem, Eby urges him to consider...

Aug 31, 2023

Pierre Trudeau spy unit reflects secrecy of Ottawa toward Quebec sovereignty

MONTREAL - New revelations about a secret anti-sovereigntist spy unit in the office of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau are a sign of how much remains unknown about the federal government's respon...

Aug 31, 2023

Rain across B.C. Interior aids wildfire fight in Okanagan, Shuswap and Fraser Canyon

Widespread rain in the forecast today throughout much of British Columbia's southern Interior is expected to aid firefighters pushing back against a number of major wildfires in the region. The Columb...

Aug 31, 2023

Record number of suspected overdose deaths in Montreal in the last year

MONTREAL - The director of a Montreal supervised drug-consumption site says the city saw a record number of drug-related deaths in the last year. CACTUS Montral executive director Jean-Franois Mary ma...

Aug 31, 2023