Canada

Calls grow to streamline licensing for doctors as health-care systems struggle

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - As Canadian health-care systems buckle under the weight of doctor shortages, the past president of the Canadian Medical Association is calling for a national licensing pathway for d...

Sep 16, 2022

Quebec election: Leaders return to campaign trail after first televised debate

MONTREAL - Quebec's major party leaders are back on the campaign trail today after last night's leaders' debate. All five leaders are scheduled to attend a summit in Montreal this morning organized by...

Sep 16, 2022

Queen remembered for 'normalizing' women on world stage, advancing feminism

Queen Elizabeth didn't make bold proclamations about the rights of women but rather it was in her small, everyday deeds that she advanced the feminist cause, experts say. Sarika Bose, a University of ...

Sep 16, 2022

Former PM Mulroney, former Gov. Gen. Clarkson to eulogize queen at Ottawa memorial

OTTAWA - Former prime minister Brian Mulroney and former governor general Adrienne Clarkson are to eulogize Queen Elizabeth at a memorial service Monday in Ottawa. Canadian artists Rufus Wainwright an...

Sep 15, 2022

Retired swim star Tewksbury honoured to be part of delegation for queen's funeral

Three-time Olympic swimming medallist Mark Tewksbury says he is "very honoured" to be part of the Canadian delegation attending Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral on Monday. Tewskbury, a member of the...

Sep 15, 2022

N.S. mass shooting inquiry hears that killer exchanged denture work for sex

HALIFAX - A report submitted to the inquiry investigating the April 2020 mass shooting in rural Nova Scotia says the gunman who killed 22 people was known to exchange denture work for sex and to explo...

Sep 15, 2022

Former Tory MP Tony Clement named director of Conservative fundraising board: sources

OTTAWA - Sources say Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has appointed former member of Parliament Tony Clement to serve on the board of the federal party's main fundraising arm. Multiple sources con...

Sep 15, 2022

Green leadership contender Elizabeth May says she never threatened to quit party

OTTAWA - Elizabeth May says she never threatened to quit the Green Party and an email suggesting as much was a "mischaracterization" by a well-meaning staffer that has since been corrected. According ...

Sep 15, 2022

B.C. toxic drug deaths double since public health emergency declared in 2016: coroner

VICTORIA - Grim statistics from British Columbia's coroner show the rate of toxic drug deaths has doubled since the province declared a public health emergency in 2016. The BC Coroners Service recorde...

Sep 15, 2022

'Wild West': Audit on veterans' medical cannabis sparks calls for oversight, research

OTTAWA - An internal audit outlining significant problems with Ottawa's administration of hundreds of millions of dollars in medical marijuana for veterans is being met with shock and concern by menta...

Sep 15, 2022