Canada

Known travellers from 13 more countries can skip visa to come to Canada: minister

OTTAWA - Low-risk travellers from 13 more countries will be able to skip a visa application if they want to visit Canada, the immigration minister announced Tuesday. An expanded program would allow pe...

Jun 06, 2023

Judge rejects Montreal homeless camp injunction, site to be dismantled by June 15

MONTREAL - A Quebec Superior Court judge has refused to extend an injunction protecting a homeless encampment under a busy Montreal highway, ruling the tent city must be dismantled by June 15 as plann...

Jun 06, 2023

'Dirty deal': protesters disrupt Joe Manchin event over Mountain Valley pipeline

WASHINGTON - Sen. Joe Manchin's latest legislative victory is stirring up anti-pipeline sentiment in the U.S. capital. Protesters who snuck into the event unfurled banners and locked arms today at a D...

Jun 06, 2023

Sex harassment case involving Trudeau Foundation should be heard in N.L., lawyer says

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The lawyer representing a woman who alleges she was sexually harassed by a former Northwest Territories premier says her client would likely have to end her lawsuit if a judge deter...

Jun 06, 2023

Stellantis has what it needs to make decision on Windsor battery plant: Champagne

OTTAWA - Industry Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne says Stellantis and LG Energy Solutions have what they need to make a decision on a proposed electric vehicle battery plant in Windsor. A spokeswo...

Jun 06, 2023

Ottawa gives updated deal to federal union that signed agreement before PSAC strike

OTTAWA - The federal government has given an updated deal to a public-service union that signed its collective agreement in the fall in order to match deals reached with the Public Service Alliance of...

Jun 06, 2023

Evacuees can return in Sept-Îles, but more than 160 wildfires still burning in Quebec

MONTREAL - One Quebec city that had been threatened by approaching wildfires has lifted an evacuation order, but other parts of the province continue to deal with out-of-control blazes that are taxing...

Jun 06, 2023

Poilievre calls on Liberals to make killers like Bernardo stay in max-security prison

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should see to it that mass murderers serve their entire sentences in maximum-security prison. The call comes as Trudeau...

Jun 06, 2023

Research advances date for likely summer ice-free Arctic by a decade

New research has moved up the time by which the Arctic Ocean is predicted to be free of summer ice. A paper published Tuesday in the journal Nature has concluded that those northern waters could be op...

Jun 06, 2023

Internal docs suggest Trudeau wants China blocked from Pacific Rim trade deal

OTTAWA - An internal document suggests Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wants China kept out of a Pacific Rim trade bloc, despite the Liberals publicly insisting it would welcome anyone who meets the tra...

Jun 06, 2023