Canada

Birth of nine calves sparks hope for endangered North Atlantic right whales

FREDERICTON - A scientist who studies the endangered North Atlantic right whale is cautiously optimistic about the current breeding season after nine calves were spotted during its first few weeks. Mo...

Jan 02, 2023

Quebec ultra-marathoner preparing to run nearly 8,000 km from Florida to Quebec

MONTREAL - A Quebec ultra-marathon runner is preparing for a nearly 8,000-kilometre run from the most southern point of the United States to Quebec's Gasp Peninsula. Joan Roch, 49, is known for runnin...

Jan 02, 2023

Convoy organizer says plans to stage a 2023 protest in Winnipeg are off

OTTAWA - Freedom Convoy 2.0 appears to be a bust. Canada Unity, one of the anti-government protest groups behind the protests that headlined much of last year, is calling off its plans to restage the ...

Jan 02, 2023

An activist in office: Steven Guilbeault's first year as environment minister

OTTAWA - Five days after Steven Guilbeault was appointed Canada's environment minister in October 2021, he headed to Scotland for the annual United Nations climate talks being held in Glasgow. But Gui...

Jan 02, 2023

'Big year' for pharmacists with new prescriptive powers, drug shortages: association

VANCOUVER - In a year when pharmacists have stickhandled children's drug shortages and an extra-busy flu shot season, you'd think they might balk at the news in Ontario and B.C. that their prescriptiv...

Jan 02, 2023

Premiers' New Year's messages talk economic improvement, health care, cost of living

VANCOUVER - Premiers across the country used their New Year's messages to emphasize everything from housing and affordability to healthy lifestyles. In his first New Year's message as premier of Briti...

Jan 01, 2023

11 Hydro-Québec customers who lost power in winter storm yet to be reconnected

MONTREAL - Hydro-Qubec says almost all of its customers who lost power in a Dec. 23 winter storm have now been reconnected. Hydro spokesman Francis Labb says 11 clients who lost power in the storm sti...

Jan 01, 2023

Canada's COVID-19 travel restrictions for China a 'political move,' says expert

An expert says Canada's requirement of a negative COVID-19 test of travellers from China will not help in preventing new variants or the spread of the virus. Kerry Bowman, assistant professor at the U...

Jan 01, 2023

Feds eyeing 'variety of options' for planned firearm buyback program: Mendicino

OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says the federal government is "looking at a variety of options" to carry out a planned buyback of banned firearms - including enlisting outside help. C...

Jan 01, 2023

Arrest made in death of Réjean Hébert, longtime radio journalist in New Brunswick

SAINT-SIMON, NEW BRUNSWICK - A journalist well-known to listeners of French-language radio in New Brunswick has been killed and police are treating the death as a homicide. Donald Nol, the general man...

Jan 01, 2023