Category Archives: Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau set to spend day in Winnipeg
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is scheduled to be in Winnipeg today. Trudeau is set to meet with Indigenous high school students in the morning before making an announcement about protecting fresh wate...
May 24, 2023
Federal government pledges $5M to Chinese Canadian Museum in Vancouver
VANCOUVER - The Chinese Canadian Museum in Vancouver has received about $5 million in new federal funding ahead of its opening on July 1. Federal International Trade and Economic Development Minister ...
May 23, 2023
Pathologist in B.C. murder trial says he's not certain where teenage girl was killed
VANCOUVER - The forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy on the body of a 13-year-old girl found dead in a Burnaby, B.C., park says he can't be certain she was killed there. Dr. Jason Morin told...
May 23, 2023
More than half of N.W.T. wildfires so far this season caused by humans: officials
HAY RIVER, N.W.T. - Officials in the Northwest Territories say more than half of the wildfires in the territory this year were started by people. A total of 15 wildfires have burned 161 square kilomet...
May 23, 2023
Five things we learned in David Johnston's first report on foreign interference
OTTAWA - Special rapporteur David Johnston released his first report on foreign interference on Tuesday, which involved analyzing recent media reports on allegations by unnamed national security sourc...
May 23, 2023
Hamlet in Northwest Territories lifts local state of emergency as floodwaters recede
FORT MCPHERSON, N.W.T. - A hamlet in the Northwest Territories' Beaufort Delta region has lifted a local state of emergency as floodwaters from the Peel River recede. The Hamlet of Fort McPherson decl...
May 23, 2023
Watchdog to probe how military police handled case against Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin
OTTAWA - The military police watchdog is launching a probe into how investigators handled a historical sexual-assault allegation against a senior officer who was a central figure in Canada's COVID-19 ...
May 23, 2023
Johnston advises against inquiry, but aims to hold hearings on foreign interference
OTTAWA - Special rapporteur David Johnston said Tuesday that a formal inquiry into foreign interference is not needed, that public hearings should be held as part of his own mandate. Johnston said an ...
May 23, 2023
Police in Chilliwack cancel shelter-in-place alert for residents near Skowkale
Police in Chilliwack, B.C., have issued an update, saying the call to shelter in place has been cancelled and an "active, ongoing, high-risk police incident" that began Monday night has been resolved....
May 23, 2023
In The News for May 23, 2023: Is a public inquiry into foreign interference coming?
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Tuesday, May 23, 2023 ... What we are watching...
May 23, 2023