Canada

Groups seek permission to appeal Quebec court ruling maintaining school prayer ban

MONTREAL - A Muslim organization and a civil liberties group are seeking to appeal a court ruling maintaining the province's ban on visible prayer in public schools. The Canadian Civil Liberties Assoc...

Jul 24, 2023

Ottawa reveals conditions for allowing future fossil fuel subsidies

MONTREAL - Ottawa is restricting the conditions under which it will allow subsidies to the fossil fuel industry. The federal government has released guidelines that will limit when public funds are us...

Jul 24, 2023

Showers for much of B.C., but evacuation orders, alerts grow in drought-ridden south

VANCOUVER - For the first time in more than a month, showers and cooler weather are reaching parched sections of British Columbia, potentially bringing some respite for crews battling hundreds of wild...

Jul 24, 2023

Searchers continue to pump water from Nova Scotia field in search for flood missing

HALIFAX - Workers are continuing to pump water from a flooded field in Nova Scotia that is the focus of a search for four people, including two children, who went missing in a torrent of water Saturda...

Jul 24, 2023

In the news today: Nova Scotia surveys damage from massive weekend rainfall

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Municipal offices in Halifax closed after weekend rains Municipal offices acros...

Jul 24, 2023

'We take pride in what we accomplished': Canadian veterans remember the Korean War

Bill Black still gets letters and cards thanking him and other Canadian veterans for their service in the Korean War. Quite a few of those notes from South Koreans have arrived lately at the Korea Vet...

Jul 24, 2023

First Nation spends day in ceremony to launch dig for potential unmarked graves

MINEGOZIIBE ANISHINABE - Before the sun broke through the sky Monday morning, members of a Manitoba First Nation planned to start a critical month-long search in a good way. Spiritual advisers were to...

Jul 24, 2023

Calls for residential school abuse records to be re-examined for names of deceased

OTTAWA - Geraldine Shingoose was shocked when she opened a report probing what should be done to protect potential unmarked grave sites at former residential schools for Indigenous children. Of the th...

Jul 24, 2023

Toddler dies after being struck by vehicle at Quebec campsite: provincial police

SAGUENAY, Que. - Quebec provincial police say a toddler was killed after being struck by a car at a campsite in the Saguenay Lac-Saint-Jean region north of Quebec City. Provincial police say the boy, ...

Jul 23, 2023

Fast-growing fire near Kamloops, B.C., prompts evacuation alerts and orders

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A fast-moving wildfire that has prompted evacuation orders and alerts in and around the Kamloops area has grown to 18-square kilometres in size. The Ross Moore Lake fire, first discov...

Jul 23, 2023