Canada

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

Ottawa spending $2M on new unmarked graves report lacks 'transparency': official

OTTAWA - A special appointee for unmarked graves says a federal decision to contract an international organization to engage with Indigenous communities on the issue lacks transparency and risks causi...

Feb 10, 2023

Trade Minster says she hopes public sees her 'sincerity' since admitting ethics error

OTTAWA - International Trade Minister Mary Ng says she hopes Canadians will see the "sincerity" in her efforts to make amends after breaking the country's ethics rules. Ng is testifying before a parli...

Feb 10, 2023