Canada

Senators urge Ottawa to give sanctions regime the same clarity, assessment as allies

OTTAWA - The Senate foreign-affairs committee is calling on Ottawa to clarify the reasons it issues sanctions and improve the ways it assesses whether financial embargoes and travel bans are actually ...

May 16, 2023

Tuberculosis outbreak declared in third Nunavut hamlet

NAUJAAT, Nunavut - Nunavut's Department of Health has declared a tuberculosis outbreak in a third community. The department says there are six cases of active tuberculosis and 10 cases of latent tuber...

May 16, 2023

June byelections will be monitored for foreign interference, government says

OTTAWA - The federal government says the Security and Intelligence Threats Task Force will be closely monitoring byelections in four ridings next month for signs of interference. Votes are being held ...

May 16, 2023

B.C. casinos will require all to show government ID under self-exclusion program

VANCOUVER - Everyone who enters a British Columbia casino will soon be required to present government-issued identification, in what the BC Lottery Corporation says is an initiative to support people ...

May 16, 2023

Quebec government says it won't appeal $385,000 judgment for ex-premier Charest

QUEBEC - The Quebec government says it won't appeal a judgment last month awarding $385,000 to former premier Jean Charest after he sued the province for invasion of privacy. A Superior Court judge si...

May 16, 2023

More money from Ontario needed to end 'stalemate' over Stellantis battery plant: feds

OTTAWA - Industry Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne says Ontario needs to bring more money to the table to end the "stalemate" with Stellantis over its new electric-vehicle battery plant. The automa...

May 16, 2023

30 cars set ablaze in Montreal, latest in a string of arsons targeting businesses

Montreal police are investigating after more than two dozen vehicles were set ablaze this morning in an industrial sector of a southwestern borough. They are the latest fires in a spate of arson cases...

May 16, 2023

Hot and dry conditions persist as wildfires rage through Western Canada

Hot and dry conditions are expected to continue as wildfires throughout Western Canada have forced thousands of evacuations and air quality warnings due to smoke as far east as northern Ontario. Rough...

May 16, 2023

All Quebec's bilingual towns resolve to keep right to operate in English and French

MONTREAL - All Quebec municipalities that were at risk of losing their bilingual status under a provincial language law have opted to maintain their right to serve people in both English and French. T...

May 16, 2023

Quebec justice minister faces ethics probe after naming friend to provincial court

Quebec Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette is facing an ethics investigation after appointing his friend as a provincial court judge. Ethics commissioner Ariane Mignolet opened an investigation afte...

May 16, 2023