Canada

Federal budget 2023 includes $59.5 billion in new spending, looks to increase revenue

OTTAWA - The federal government announced $59.5 billion of new spending over the next five years as part of a narrowly focused budget that also promises to find savings in the public service and incre...

Mar 28, 2023

NewsAlert: $491B budget invests in clean electricity, health care

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's 2023 federal budget promises "transformative investments" in Canada's green economy and expanded dental care, all while claiming Ottawa can rein in the co...

Mar 28, 2023

'It's really sad': Neighbour describes chaotic scene after Calgary house explosion

CALGARY - Rima Rifai thought her furnace had exploded Monday when the house across the street burst into a ball of fire, sending 10 people to hospital with serious injuries. When she opened the front ...

Mar 28, 2023

Final two victims of Old Montreal fire identified, investigation to focus on cause

MONTREAL - Police say the final two victims of a March 16 fire in Old Montreal that killed seven people have been identified. Montreal police Insp. David Shane confirmed today that Charlie Lacroix and...

Mar 28, 2023

Health care professionals fight decision to reject access to psilocybin for training

Canada violated the rights of hundreds of patients awaiting access to psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy when it rejected applications from health-care professionals to consume the restricted drug for ...

Mar 28, 2023

Alberta Energy Regulator to launch third-party probe of Kearl oilsands tailings leak

The Alberta Energy Regulator says it will launch an independent investigation into the tailings leak at Imperial Oil's Kearl oilsands mine. The regulator says in a news release today it is looking for...

Mar 28, 2023

Airbnb: 79 per cent of Quebec rentals in February not certified, housing group says

MONTREAL - A report by a Montreal tenants' rights association says 79 per cent of the roughly 30,000 units in Quebec that were available for rent in February on Airbnb were not certified by the provin...

Mar 28, 2023

National Inuit organization seeking $1.6 billion for school food program

OTTAWA - A national Inuit organization is calling for about $1.6 billion in federal funding over 15 years to set up a co-ordinatedschool food program in the North. Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami released a r...

Mar 28, 2023

Republicans, Democrats spar on Capitol Hill over Canada-U.S. migration 'crisis'

WASHINGTON - Republicans and Democrats are doing battle today over what one side calls a "crisis" of illegal immigration at the Canada-U.S. border. Democrats on the House Committee on Homeland Securit...

Mar 28, 2023

Psychiatric evaluation extended for man accused of crashing bus into Quebec daycare

LAVAL, Que. - A Montreal psychiatric hospital says it needs more time to evaluate the mental state of a man accused of killing two young children by driving a city bus into a daycare. The Philippe-Pin...

Mar 28, 2023