Canada

Police recover body of Quebec infant missing in river since car crash Friday

MONTREAL - Police in the Montreal suburb of Laval say they found the body today of a one-month-old infant missing in a river since Friday evening. The baby boy had disappeared when a vehicle with his ...

Oct 31, 2022

B.C. government offers new pay model for doctors to help health crisis

VANCOUVER - Family doctors in British Columbia are getting a significant raise under the province's new compensation model as part of a plan to address the crisis in the health care system. The provin...

Oct 31, 2022

'Money for free': Critics warn proposed Alberta well cleanup plan a royalty giveaway

EDMONTON - Critics fear Alberta's new United Conservative premier is preparing to bring in a program that would use billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded royalty breaks to subsidize energy companies ...

Oct 31, 2022

Canada sanctions Iranian police force, university as regime cracks down on protests

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly says Canada is adding Iran's national police force and an Iranian international university to its sanctions list. The addition of Iran's Law Enforcement F...

Oct 31, 2022

Sloly Emergencies Act testimony continues, food costs survey: In The News for Oct. 31

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Oct. 31 ... What we are watching in Canada ......

Oct 31, 2022

Exiting B.C. Premier Horgan says he learned to listen, but fuse still burns bright

VICTORIA - John Horgan says some of the greatest lessons he learned while premier of British Columbia came from people considered political adversaries. He said he found ways to work with people of al...

Oct 31, 2022

Survey suggests 20 per cent of Canadians skipping meals to cut down on food costs

SASKATOON - Laurie O'Connor says more people in Saskatoon are struggling to get food for themselves and their families as prices in grocery stores rise out of reach. "We are definitely seeing an incre...

Oct 31, 2022

Testimony of former Ottawa police chief Sloly to continue at Emergencies Act inquiry

OTTAWA - Former Ottawa police chief Peter Sloly is expected to continue his testimony this morning at the public inquiry investigating Ottawa's use of the Emergencies Act during "Freedom Convoy" prote...

Oct 31, 2022

Mischief trial set to start for Doug McCallum, outgoing mayor of Surrey, B.C.

SURREY, B.C. - The outgoing mayor of Surrey, B.C., is set to face a charge of public mischief at the start of a trial today, two weeks after his defeat at the polls. Doug McCallum lost by 973 votes in...

Oct 31, 2022

Vigil outside burned northern Manitoba home mourns loss of four kids

THOMPSON, Man. - Standing on slush under street lights in front of a charred and boarded-up home where a fire claimed the lives of four young children, a large crowd gathered in a northern Manitoba ci...

Oct 30, 2022