Canada

Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland to testify on 'Freedom Convoy' at Emergencies Act inquiry

OTTAWA - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland is next on the witness list at the public inquiry probing the federal government's decision to invoke the Emergencies Act in response to weeks-long pro...

Nov 24, 2022

Climate Changed: Adaptation strategy to set targets to fight heat, floods, fires

OTTAWA - Canada is set to have a new national climate adaptation strategy, outlining the government's intention to eliminate deaths from heat and forest fires, protect homes and businesses at the high...

Nov 24, 2022

LGBTQ and other rights issues at World Cup a 'huge blemish' on FIFA: Hall of Famer

VANCOUVER - Carrie Serwetnyk, the first woman inducted into the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame and an advocate for equal rights in sports,is in Qatar for the 2022 World Cup and says the event is "still ...

Nov 24, 2022

Inflation relief measures should be well-targeted and temporary, says Macklem

OTTAWA - Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem says governments looking to provide inflation relief to Canadians should choose measures that are well-targeted and temporary. At a House of Commons commi...

Nov 23, 2022

B.C. man convicted of killing his four- and six-year-old daughters denied appeal

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia man who killed his two young daughters on Christmas Day in 2017 has been denied an appeal by the province's highest court. Andrew Berry claimed the lower court made nu...

Nov 23, 2022

Feds file judicial review of $40B Indigenous child-welfare settlement

OTTAWA - The federal government is asking a judge to review some aspects of the $40-billion settlement agreement over discrimination in the Indigenous child-welfare system, after the Canadian Human Ri...

Nov 23, 2022

Jury finds former PQ legislator Harold LeBel guilty of sexual assault

RIMOUSKI, Que. - Former Parti Qubcois legislator Harold LeBel was found guilty on Wednesday of sexually assaulting a woman at his residence in 2017. A jury of nine women and three men took two days to...

Nov 23, 2022

B.C. human rights tribunal awards $150,000 in child welfare discrimination case

VANCOUVER - An Afro-Indigenous woman has been awarded $150,000 in compensation by the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal after her children were wrongfully seized by a child welfare agency. The tr...

Nov 23, 2022

Quebec judicial council rejects complaint over judge's sexual assault ruling

MONTREAL - The Quebec judicial council has rejected complaints about a judge who granted a conditional discharge to a young engineer who pleaded guilty to sexual assault and voyeurism. Quebec court Ju...

Nov 23, 2022

Rejecting unproven claims the right way for inquiry heads to proceed: Murray Sinclair

OTTAWA - The commissioner presiding over the public inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act is rejecting a request from a lawyer for "Freedom Convoy" organizers to call witnesses over an unsubstan...

Nov 23, 2022