Canada

DriveBC issues advisory for 150 km stretch of highway between Golden and Revelstoke

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's transportation ministry says an "intense spring storm" is poised to hit a 150 km stretch of Highway in the southeastern part of the province. DriveBC issued a travel adv...

Apr 08, 2023

Signs calling for police to search landfills taped to Winnipeg police headquarters

WINNIPEG - Protesters attending a rally honouring an Indigenous woman whose remains were recovered at a landfill taped their protest signs to the windows of the Winnipeg Police Service headquarters, d...

Apr 08, 2023

Nearly 300,000 customers still without power in Quebec after ice storm

MONTREAL - The pace of power restoration in Quebec was expected to slow down on Saturda, now that hydro crews have dealt with the largest-scale outages caused by this week's deadly ice storm. Maxime N...

Apr 08, 2023

Canadian woman released from Syrian camp released on bail in Alberta

OTTAWA - A Canadian woman who was returned from a prison camp in Syria this week has been released on bail in Edmonton pending a terrorism peace bond application. RCMP in Alberta say the 38-year-old w...

Apr 07, 2023

Hundreds of thousands remain without power after dedly ice storm in Quebec

MONTREAL - Hydro-Qubec says it's restored power to more than half a million customers since Wednesday's ice storm, but more than 600,000 remain in the dark. Director of Energy System Control Maxime Na...

Apr 07, 2023

'Hanging in': David Suzuki shares insights as he retires from 'The Nature of Things'

After 44 years as the face of Canada's premier science TV show, you might expect David Suzuki to feel a little sadness and a little nostalgia as he steps down as host of "The Nature of Things." Not so...

Apr 07, 2023

Family of Indian migrants who died in Quebec shocked by river crossing attempt

An Indian national who died with his family last week when a boat capsized in the St. Lawrence River during an attempt to enter the United States was "mortally afraid of water," says his cousin. Pravi...

Apr 07, 2023

N.S. mass shooting: how gun smuggling happened, and the inquiry's call for reforms

HALIFAX - A decade before a Nova Scotia man used smuggled guns to murder 22 people in the province in 2020, police information systems had labelled him as a firearms risk. Yet those records never foun...

Apr 07, 2023

Sajjan says Liberals might reverse foreign-aid drop if economy bounces back

OTTAWA - International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan says his government might boost foreign aid spending if the Canadian economy rebounds after criticism over a drop in development funding that ...

Apr 07, 2023

Doctor behind cross-border rush for Ozempic in B.C. is suspended in Nova Scotia

BEDFORD, NOVA SCOTIA - Nova Scotia's College of Physicians and Surgeons has suspended a doctor it says was responsible for thousands of prescriptions of the diabetes and weight-loss drug Ozempic that ...

Apr 06, 2023