Canada

Ex-nurse donates $3.8M for health unit in Downtown Eastside where she worked in 1950s

VANCOUVER - Lily Lee's first contribution to Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and Chinatown neighbourhoods was as a 21-year-old community nurse in the 1950s when she was fresh out of the University of Br...

Nov 11, 2022

Cleanup of former gold mine in Northwest Territories to cost more than $4 billion

YELLOWKNIFE - Cleanup of one of the most contaminated sites in Canada is estimated to cost taxpayers more than four times what was initially expected. The Treasury Board of Canada recently approved a ...

Nov 10, 2022

B.C. Indigenous scholar Margo Greenwood appointed as senator

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced the appointment of a new senator, Margo Greenwood, who will represent British Columbia. Greenwood is a decorated scholar of Cree ancestry who has e...

Nov 10, 2022

Ontario man arrested, awaiting U.S. extradition for alleged global ransomware crimes

A Russian-Canadian man from Ontario is in police custody and awaiting extradition to the United States for his alleged participation in a global ransomware campaign, the U.S. Department of Justice ann...

Nov 10, 2022

Quebec man faces murder charge three years after fatal head-on highway crash

MONTREAL - Quebec provincial police say a man has been charged with second-degree murder after a head-on highway collision killed another man more than three years ago. Jano Vincent, 33, was arrested ...

Nov 10, 2022

Labrador MP Yvonne Jones taking leave of absence for breast cancer treatment

OTTAWA - Labrador member of Parliament Yvonne Jones is taking a leave of absence to deal with a recurrence of breast cancer. The parliamentary secretary to the ministers of natural resources and of no...

Nov 10, 2022

Sentencing arguments continue for former CFL player convicted of voyeurism

CALGARY - Sentencing arguments are continuing for a former player with the Calgary Stampeders who filmed a sexual encounter with a woman without her permission. Jerome Messam, who is 37, pleaded guilt...

Nov 10, 2022

Trudeau to take off for international meetings, starting with Cambodia ASEAN summit

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to take off late tonight for a flurry of international meetings across four countries, starting in Cambodia. Trudeau is due in Phnom Penh for a leade...

Nov 10, 2022

Quebec Liberals name Marc Tanguay interim leader after Anglade resignation

QUEBEC - The Quebec Liberal Party has named veteran member Marc Tanguay as interim leader days after the previous leader stepped down. Tanguay will replace Dominique Anglade, who resigned Monday, five...

Nov 10, 2022

Democracy the clear champion in U.S. midterm elections, say envoys in D.C., Ottawa

WASHINGTON - The ambassadors representing Canada and the United States in each other's capitals say democracy was the true winner in Tuesday's midterm elections. Both David Cohen, Washington's envoy i...

Nov 10, 2022