Canada

Privacy Act allows disclosure for inmate transfers, Mendicino said it restricts them

OTTAWA - Soon after Canadians were told privacy law was preventing them from learning why notorious serial killer Paul Bernardo was moved to a medium-security prison, the federal privacy watchdog was ...

Jul 17, 2023

North American Indigenous Games officially open in Halifax as prime minister attends

HALIFAX - The North American Indigenous Games have officially opened, with the prime minister attending as thousands of Indigenous athletes from across the continent filled the Halifax Forum Civic Cen...

Jul 16, 2023

One dead, another critically injured after gondola crash at Quebec's Mont-Tremblant

MONT-TREMBLANT, Que. - Quebec provincial police say one person has died and another critically injured after they were thrown from a sightseeing gondola at the popular Mont-Tremblant resort. Police sa...

Jul 16, 2023

Manitoba bus crash claims 17th victim as woman dies in hospital

CARBERRY, Man. - RCMP in Manitoba say a 17th victim has died from her injuries a month after a bus crash in Manitoba. They say a 79-year-old woman who had been in hospital since the collision died tod...

Jul 16, 2023

Firefighter in Northwest Territories dies battling wildfire near home community

FORT LIARD, N.W.T. - A firefighter has died while battling a wildfire near his home community in the Northwest Territories. The territorial government issued a statement saying the firefighter from Fo...

Jul 16, 2023

Poilievre's office, Calgary MP silent over latest photo with controversial message

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's office is tight-lipped over a photo of one of his Opposition critics posing with two people wearing slogans against measures addressing sexual orientati...

Jul 16, 2023

Ongoing Storm repairs, public safety concerns leave thousands without power in Quebec

MONTREAL - Hydro-Qubec says fewer than 2,000 clients who lost power Thursday due to a thunderstorm are still without electricity, but other storms have led to further outages. Around 5,600 hydro custo...

Jul 16, 2023

Canada sees 100,000 square kilometres burned this record-breaking wildfire season

OTTAWA - Canada's record-breaking wildfire season has now seen 100,000 square kilometres of land scorched as blazes continue to burn out of control across the entire country. The total area burned is ...

Jul 16, 2023

N.W.T. researchers studying permafrost, 'the foundation on which everything is built'

INUVIK, N.W.T. - Off the side of the road not far from the airport in Inuvik, N.W.T., among the shrubs and spruce trees, a series of rusted metal bars are buried deep in the ground. Installed in 2004,...

Jul 16, 2023

'Catastrophe:' Strong opposition to Lac-Mégantic rail bypass 10 years after tragedy

LAC-MGANTIC, Que. - Raymond Savoie has lived all his 71 years in a small stone house, surrounded by farmland, that was originally built by his great-grandfather nearly 100 years ago in Lac-Mgantic, Qu...

Jul 16, 2023