Canada

Applications open for dental care benefits touted by Liberals as inflation relief

OTTAWA - Parents can apply with the Canada Revenue Agency starting today to receive the children's dental benefit that the federal Liberals say is intended to provide cost-of-living relief to low-inco...

Dec 01, 2022

Progress being made in fight to save North Atlantic right whale from extinction

HALIFAX - The latest official population estimate for the world's most endangered species of whale is grim. A group of international experts recently confirmed there were about 340 surviving North Atl...

Dec 01, 2022

'Reuniting was indescribable:' Communities share stories of searching unmarked graves

WINNIPEG - On a clear summer day in August, Rebecca Blake found herself standing in a cemetery outside Edmonton searching for the graves of Inuvialuit who died in the South during a tuberculosis epide...

Nov 30, 2022

COVID vaccine policy for Arctic Winter Games not due to Alberta influence: official

YELLOWKNIFE - An official with the Arctic Winter Games says its decision to revoke a mandatory COVID-19 vaccine policy for the upcoming event had nothing to do with pressure from the Alberta governmen...

Nov 30, 2022

Alberta premier rejects accusations her sovereignty bill is undemocratic power grab

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is rejecting Opposition accusations that a bill granting her and her cabinet sweeping powers to rewrite laws behind closed doors is an undemocratic, dangerous...

Nov 30, 2022

Calls for expanded safe supply as B.C. counts another 179 overdose deaths

VICTORIA - British Columbia's coroner says the overdose death toll for October reached 179 people, prompting a renewed call for Premier David Eby to introduce a widely accessible safe supply of drugs....

Nov 30, 2022

List of areas the Alberta government accuses Ottawa of overreaching

EDMONTON - When the Alberta legislature resumed sitting Tuesday, the first bill introduced by the United Conservative Party government was one aimed at shielding the province from federal laws it deem...

Nov 30, 2022

Legal experts say Ottawa unlikely to be 'main combatant' in Alberta sovereignty fight

CALGARY - Constitutional law experts say it's unlikely Ottawa will rush to fight Alberta over a proposed sovereignty bill that would give the provincial government new powers to resist what it conside...

Nov 30, 2022

China accused of 'regularly' intercepting Canadian military aircraft

OTTAWA - China is being accused of having "regularly" intercepted a Canadian military aircraft tasked with enforcing UN sanctions against North Korea. The Department of National Defence says the inter...

Nov 30, 2022

Economy and identity: Quebec premier delivers inaugural speech of 43rd legislature

Quebec Premier Franois Legault says his focus for the next four years will be to reverse the decline of French in Montreal and to expand Quebec's economy while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Legau...

Nov 30, 2022