Canada

Four cows have been captured in a small Quebec town after months on the loose

QUEBEC - After several months on the run, four cows from a herd of runaway cattle were captured on Saturday night in St-Svre, Que. The regional chapter of the Union des producteurs agricoles says the ...

Dec 18, 2022

Argentina fans delighted over thrilling World Cup win against France

TORONTO - Canadian soccer fans stood in chilly pre-dawn lineups, painted their faces and ultimately wound up on a wild ride on Sunday as they packed bars to take in a particularly tense World Cup fina...

Dec 18, 2022

'One side or the other': Coutts, Alta. still a village divided after convoy blockade

COUTTS, Alta. - The sound of blaring horns that echoed through this village 10 months ago has been replaced by the steady hum of semi-trailer trucks filing through the border crossing between Alberta ...

Dec 18, 2022

'Hallowed space': Divers pull 275 artifacts from 2022 excavation of Franklin ship

Eleven metres below the surface of the Northwest Passage, deep within the wreck of one of Capt. John Franklin's doomed ships, something caught the eye of diver Ryan Harris. Harris was in the middle of...

Dec 18, 2022

Pierre Poilievre thinks he can win over new Canadians. Here's how he plans to do it.

OTTAWA - A young Pierre Poilievre sits in front of a room of Conservative faithful and explains their party's strategy for winning a majority mandate. That hasn't happened yet. It's 2009 and while the...

Dec 18, 2022

China to present biodiversity framework for approval at COP15 this morning

MONTREAL - Chinese Environment Minister Huang Runqiu is expected to present the text of a new global agreement to protect nature at COP15 in Montreal this morning. The final draft comes after nearly t...

Dec 18, 2022

Feds, Northwest Territories to create Indigenous protected area for Great Bear Lake

MONTREAL - The federal government, the Northwest Territories and the Dln Got'n government signed off on a plan Saturday to create an Indigenous protected area around Great Bear Lake. The three governm...

Dec 17, 2022

In crowded N.B. hospital, 88-year-old awaiting nursing home placed in supply room

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The daughter of an 88-year-old woman who spent part of Thursday in the supply room of an overcrowded New Brunswick hospital says she's alarmed by the space shortages in the province...

Dec 17, 2022

Dignitaries, family and friends gather for funeral of Manitoba politician Jim Carr

WINNIPEG - Friends, family and former political colleagues are paying tribute today to Jim Carr. Hundreds of people, including the prime minister, cabinet members and former political opponents, atten...

Dec 17, 2022

N.W.T. announces latest case of private health information mishandled

YELLOWKNIFE - A privacy breach affecting people who stayed at a COVID-19 isolation centre is the latest in a long line of cases of health information being mishandled in the Northwest Territories. Lat...

Dec 17, 2022