Canada

Winnipeg police commit to working with First Nations groups on landfill search

WINNIPEG - Police are to be part of a committee led by First Nations groups to determine the feasibility of recovering the remains of two Indigenous women believed to at a landfill outside Winnipeg. F...

Dec 14, 2022

Health ministers agree on improving health care, but premiers holding out: Duclos

OTTAWA - Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos and his provincial counterparts agree privately on what needs to be done to improve health care, the federal minister said Wednesday, but he argues "the ball ...

Dec 14, 2022

Liberal bill requiring tech giants to pay for news content passes in House of Commons

OTTAWA - A Liberal government bill designed to require web giants to compensate journalism outfits for reposting their content has passed a final vote in the House of Commons today. The House of Commo...

Dec 14, 2022

Ottawa aims to reduce size of salmon fishing industry by buying licences

VANCOUVER - The federal government is offering to buy Pacific salmon commercial fishing licences from those looking to get out of the declining industry as it tries to protect the fish that remain. Fi...

Dec 14, 2022

Fusion breakthrough a 'marvel' of global scientific collaboration, including Canada

WASHINGTON - The fusion ignition breakthrough that has experts hailing a new dawn in the search for clean energy took a lot of help from around the world - including Canada. Researchers at the Univers...

Dec 14, 2022

Canada beefing up Haiti embassy in push for political consensus

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is beefing up Canada's embassy staffing in Haiti to work closer with security officials. Trudeau announced that change after a high-level meeting on Tuesday with...

Dec 14, 2022

Canada not sending fighter jets to Europe next year as Air Force rearms, regroups

OTTAWA - Canada will not send fighter jets to patrol NATO airspace next year, the first time that Canadian CF-18s will be absent from the skies over Europe since 2017. Based out of Romania, the CF-18s...

Dec 14, 2022

Black federal employees say creation of mental health program plagued by racism

OTTAWA - A group of Black federal public servants is accusing the government of racism, and is threatening to pull out of the development of a mental health action plan meant for Black workers. The Fe...

Dec 14, 2022

Chief science adviser releases recommendations to combat long-COVID

OTTAWA - Canada's chief science adviser is encouraging the government to develop a list of criteria to diagnose long-COVID and guidelines for doctors to treat it. Mona Nemer released the recommendatio...

Dec 14, 2022

New N.S. top Mountie says public wants to keep force despite mass shooting response

HALIFAX - The RCMP's new commanding officer in Nova Scotia believes the public wants a renewed relationship with his police force despite its widely criticized response to the 2020 mass shooting. Assi...

Dec 14, 2022