Canada

Integrity commissioner needs sporting body buy-in to investigate abuse complaints

OTTAWA - Two dozen complaints about abuse and mistreatment have been filed with Canada's new sport integrity commissioner, but she cannot investigate most of them because so few national sporting bodi...

Oct 20, 2022

Vancouver's Chinatown in a generational divide over Ken Sim's election as mayor

VANCOUVER - In Vancouver's Chinatown, baker Denny Wong is so enthusiastic about mayor-elect Ken Sim that he's already thinking about 2026. He says Sim visited his Hong-Kong-style bakery before last we...

Oct 20, 2022

Supreme Court to decide whether to hear from St. Anne's residential school survivors

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will announce today whether it plans to hear a case of residential school survivors who have fought a years-long battle against Ottawa to release thousands of reco...

Oct 20, 2022

Police officials to testify before Emergencies Act inquiry

OTTAWA - Officials from the Ottawa Police Service and Ontario Provincial Police are expected to testify about their challenges overcoming the "Freedom Convoy" protests today at an inquiry investigatin...

Oct 20, 2022

A quick sketch of David Eby who will be British Columbia's next premier

VICTORIA - David Eby will be British Columbia's next premier after the party disqualified his only competitor Anjali Appadurai over what it says was improper conduct in co-ordinating a membership driv...

Oct 19, 2022

Ukrainian aid fundraiser questions Smith's apology on Russian invasion comments

EDMONTON - A former member of Alberta's legislative assembly and key fundraiser for war-torn Ukraine says he's skeptical about Premier Danielle Smith's apology for remarks she made about the country's...

Oct 19, 2022

Longtime CP journalist Alan Black, known for being 'fast off the draw,' dies

Alan Black, a longtime journalist with The Canadian Press who worked 17 Olympics and was the "eyes and ears" of the national wire agency while most of the country was sleeping, has died. He was 64. Bl...

Oct 19, 2022

Canada adds to Iran sanctions, targeting TV station, entities accused of torture

OTTAWA - Canada is imposing more restrictions on Iranian officials with a focus on entities Ottawa is linking to propaganda and torture. The new sanctions target six people and four entities, includin...

Oct 19, 2022

Quebec father charged in killings of two children remains unable to appear in court

LAVAL, Que. - A Quebec father accused of killing his two children in their home north of Montreal is still not able to appear before a judge. Kamaljit Arora, 45, was charged on Tuesday with two counts...

Oct 19, 2022

'Little window': Coal mine supporters hope for change under new Alberta premier

EDMONTON - Supporters of open-pit coal mining say there's a chance new mines could be built in Alberta's Rockies after comments from the province's new premier. "We're hoping with this little window w...

Oct 19, 2022