Canada

What could an Ontario byelection say about Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre?

OTTAWA - Three months ago, Pierre Poilievre proved he was the populist fighter Conservatives wanted in the next federal election, winning the party's leadership contest in a landslide. But how much is...

Dec 10, 2022

Tenacious whale swims across the Pacific with a broken spine: B.C. researchers

A humpback whale with a severe spinal injury used nothing but its pectoral fins to swim 4,800 kilometres between British Columbia and Hawaii, in what a researcher says is a heartbreaking example of a ...

Dec 10, 2022

Speed up shift to family care, says B.C. coroner's jury in death of Cree teen

BURNABY, B.C. - British Columbia's representative for children and youth says one of the messages she hopes comes out of a coroner's inquest into the death of an Indigenous teenager is the importance ...

Dec 09, 2022

Ottawa announces Indigenous guardians network to fight climate change

MONTREAL - The federal government is announcing the creation of a new network that will help support Indigenous-led environmental initiatives. Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault made the announcem...

Dec 09, 2022

Extinction risk to wild species must be eliminated by 2050: Conservation group

OTTAWA - The global organization that tracks threats to plants, animals and other organisms says a successful agreement to protect nature would be one that eliminates the threat of extinction for all ...

Dec 09, 2022

Quebec adopts law making oath to King optional for elected members.

Quebec's legislature has passed a law putting an end to the requirement that members swear an oath to the King. The Coalition Avenir Qubec government had tabled a bill on Tuesday making the oath to th...

Dec 09, 2022

B.C.'s respiratory illness surge stabilizing after deaths of six kids: disease centre

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Centre for Disease Control says a deadly spike in acute respiratory illness is showing signs of stabilizing, after the flu-related deaths of at least six children and ...

Dec 09, 2022

Leslyn Lewis's former campaign manager to help Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in 2023

OTTAWA - The man ran Leslyn Lewis's campaign as she made two consecutive bids to become the federal Conservative leader is off to help Alberta Premier Danielle Smith try to win a provincial election i...

Dec 09, 2022

CP NewsAlert: Alberta Mounties found not guilty of manslaughter, aggravated assault

EDMONTON - Two Mounties on trial in the killing of an Alberta man have been found not guilty of manslaughter and aggravated assault. Const. Jessica Brown and Cpl. Randy Stenger were charged after the ...

Dec 09, 2022

'No grounds': RCMP say no criminal charges in fatal Alberta icefield crash

EDMONTON - Mounties say no criminal charges will be laid in a fatal rollover of an all-terrain tour bus at the Columbia Icefield in the Rocky Mountains more than two years ago. Three people were kille...

Dec 09, 2022