Canada

Jean Charest: Quick facts about the Conservative leadership candidate

OTTAWA - Jean Charest has had a long run in Canadian politics. He was a cabinet minister under Progressive Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney, a key "No" campaigner in the 1995 Quebec referend...

Sep 04, 2022

Plus ça change: Jean Charest tries to repeat history with Conservative leadership bid

OTTAWA - It's just after 9 a.m. on a Friday morning at Wilfrid's Restaurant in the Chteau Laurier and guests are helping themselves to a breakfast buffet when Jean Charest takes his seat in the corner...

Sep 04, 2022

Families and former patients seek access to federal 'Indian hospital' records

OTTAWA - Georgina Martin says she is still searching for answers about the treatment of her mother. Martin was born at the Coqualeetza Indian Hospital in British Columbia after her mother was confined...

Sep 04, 2022

B.C. scientists hopeful in fight against mites that puncture and kill honeybees

SURREY, B.C. - Chemistry professor Erika Plettner gestures towards beehives surrounded by tall, dry grasses as she explains the multiple pressures facing honeybees worldwide. Pesticides, pathogens and...

Sep 04, 2022

Quebec election: Once a major force, Parti Québécois risks finishing with one seat

MONTREAL - As Parti Qubcois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon launched his party's election campaign, he described his candidates as a "Cinderella team" that would go further than people expect. It was ...

Sep 04, 2022

Fifty years after major Montreal art theft, trail has gone cold and nobody's talking

MONTREAL - Fifty years after what has been described as the biggest art heist in Canadian history, the thieves' identity remains a mystery, and nobody is keen to talk about it. From the Montreal polic...

Sep 04, 2022

Green candidates introduce themselves at launch of 'amazing' leadership contest

OTTAWA - The six candidates vying for leadership of the federal Greens pledged to bring new life to the party following a dark period of policy disputes and personality clashes that culminated in last...

Sep 03, 2022

Quebec election: CAQ proposes two private medical centres to ease hospital strain

MONTREAL - The Coalition Avenir Qubec promised Saturday to build a pair of private medical centres that would provide services that would be free to Quebecers and reimbursed by medicare in an attempt ...

Sep 03, 2022

Canadian astronaut Saint-Jacques says Artemis 1 delay disappointing, but right call

MONTREAL - Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques says today's decision to scrub the launch of NASA's new moon rocket is disappointing but necessary due to another leak found ahead of the planned test...

Sep 03, 2022

'Beautiful, one-of-a-kind cities are under water:' Floods in Pakistan worry Canadians

Hours after returning to Canada from Pakistan, a Calgary businessman said he got word floodwaters hit the same area where he had been helping people with disabilities move out of the way of the impend...

Sep 03, 2022