Canada

Alberta NDP demands answers on premier's conversations with accused in COVID cases

EDMONTON - Alberta's Opposition NDP is calling on Premier Danielle Smith to divulge all her conversations relating to COVID-19 court cases after she acknowledged having contact with an accused before ...

Feb 10, 2023

B.C. Liberals say Eby's overdose strategy is too narrow, but he says he doesn't mind

VICTORIA - B.C. Premier David Eby says he doesn't mind being told his government's approach to the toxic drug and overdose crisis is too narrow and doomed to fail. At least it shows a consensus that m...

Feb 10, 2023

Tories, Bloc push for unequal approach to amending Canada's Official Languages Act

OTTAWA - The Bloc Qubcois and Conservatives are pushing for an unequal approach to amending Canada's Official Languages Act - one that a federal official warns could reduce English services in Quebec....

Feb 10, 2023

'Huge concern': Opposition says Alberta premier should come clean on campaign funding

Alberta's New Democrat Opposition says Premier Danielle Smith should come clean on whether funding for her leadership campaign has influenced the agenda of her United Conservative Party government. En...

Feb 10, 2023

Funeral to be held Thursday for four-year-old boy killed in Quebec bus crash

LAVAL, Que. - A funeral will be held Thursday for one of the two children killed when a bus crashed into a daycare Wednesday in Laval, Que., just north of Montreal. Jacob Gauthier, 4, was identified i...

Feb 10, 2023

B.C. team helps rescue woman, pulled from rubble four days after Turkey quake

A search and rescue team from British Columbia has taken part in the successful rescue of a woman from earthquake rubble in Turkey, more than four days after the tremor hit. Footage by the CBC showed ...

Feb 10, 2023

U.S. analysis ongoing to determine if Chinese spy balloon gathered intel from Canada

WASHINGTON - Canada's defence minister says the United States is still trying to determine whether a Chinese surveillance balloon collected any intelligence from either country when it flew over North...

Feb 10, 2023

Quebec police say fire that killed six, including four children, likely not criminal

SAINT-JACQUES, QUE. - Provincial police say they believe that a fire that killed six members of a family on Thursday in Quebec's Lanaudire region was likely accidental. A police spokesperson says inve...

Feb 10, 2023

Ottawa appeals court ruling directing government to help repatriate four men in Syria

OTTAWA - The federal government is appealing a judge's declaration that four Canadian men being held in Syrian camps are entitled to Ottawa's help to return home. In a filing today in the Federal Cour...

Feb 10, 2023

Canadian organizations deploy aid workers in Turkey to help earthquake survivors

TORONTO - Canadian organizations are deploying aid workers to help the survivors of a disastrous earthquake that struck parts of Turkey and Syria. More than 22,000 people have been killed and thousand...

Feb 10, 2023