Canada

Quebec's parties begin criss-crossing province on first full day of election campaign

MONTREAL - Incumbent Premier and Coalition Avenir Qubec Leader Franois Legault is beginning the first full day of the election campaign with a news conference in the Quebec City area. Legault will att...

Aug 29, 2022

Floods, drought, storms could cost Canada's economy $139 billion by 2050: report

OTTAWA - Floods, droughts and major storms that wash out highways, damage buildings and affect power grids could cost Canada's economy $139 billion over the next 30 years, a new climate-based analysis...

Aug 29, 2022

Trudeau calls for leaders to take united stance after Freeland confronted in Alberta

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called for political leaders to take a united stance against threats of violence and intimidation on Sunday, days after his deputy was confronted in Alberta by a man who ...

Aug 28, 2022

Legault criticized for calling Liberal leader 'that lady' as election campaign starts

QUEBEC - Coalition Avenir Qubec Leader Franois Legault is being criticized for referring to Liberal Leader Dominique Anglade as "that lady" on Day 1 of the provincial election campaign. Legault was as...

Aug 28, 2022

Quebec general election: Selection of quotes from party leaders on Day 1 of campaign

MONTREAL - Quebecers are going to the polls for a general election on Oct. 3; here are a series of quotes from the leaders of the province's five major parties on Day 1 of the campaign. - Franois Lega...

Aug 28, 2022

Canada invests $100 million into "historic" action plan for LGBTQ2S+ communities

OTTAWA - The federal government unveiled what it described as a historic first on Sunday as it announced a five-year, $100 million plan to support LGBTQ, two-spirit and intersex communities across the...

Aug 28, 2022

What are the five major parties taking part in Quebec's provincial election?

MONTREAL - Quebec's election campaign began on Sunday and Quebecers will go to the polls on Oct. 3; here's a look at the five parties vying to form the province's next government. - Coalition Avenir Q...

Aug 28, 2022

Artemis space mission to moon 'a stepping-stone' to Mars and beyond

The last time humans went to the moon, it was a destination. But when NASA's Artemis 1 mission launches Monday, the moon will be more of a way station. "It's really to learn how we can go further," sa...

Aug 28, 2022

'From leaf to space': N.W.T. youth join NASA flight surveying climate change effects

YELLOWKNIFE - Two Northwest Territories youth joined NASA researchers aboard a Gulfstream III jet earlier this month as it soared above Great Slave Lake and parts of Nunavut and Alberta. "It was reall...

Aug 28, 2022

Two art heists, 50 years apart: expert says Canada is a 'soft target'

OTTAWA - It's not clear how they did it: was it a clandestine operation, carried out under the cloak of darkness? An elaborate ruse, designed to fool onlookers? Or something else? However it happened,...

Aug 28, 2022