Canada

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

Senate motion to strip 'Honourable' title could affect at least two former senators

OTTAWA - At least two former senators could be stripped of the title of "Honourable" following a motion the upper chamber passed Tuesday. Former senator Don Meredith, who is facing criminal charges fo...

Nov 30, 2022

Coroner refuses Montreal family's request for new investigation into woman's ER death

MONTREAL - The Quebec coroner's office has rejected a request by a Montreal family for a new investigation into the death of an 86-year-old Filipino woman found lifeless on the floor of an emergency r...

Nov 30, 2022

Gun group says firearms ban driven by ideology as government stresses public safety

OTTAWA - A firearm advocacy group says the Liberal government's effort to ban a wide variety of rifles is being driven by ideology, not public safety. But the government says it's all about prohibitin...

Nov 30, 2022

Conditions improving after snow and windstorm hammers southern B.C.

VANCOUVER - A fierce storm blanketed Vancouver Island and much of British Columbia's south coast with 10 to 25 centimetres of snow, causing traffic gridlock, power outages and airport delays. Environm...

Nov 30, 2022

Largest recorded Alberta earthquake probably natural, scientist says

EDMONTON - A geologist says the largest earthquake ever recorded in Alberta was probably due to natural causes. Rebecca Salvage of the University of Calgary says the 5.6-magnitude quake that rattled w...

Nov 30, 2022