Canada

Indigenous leaders from B.C. take international stage for a climate policy pitch

SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt - First Nations leaders from British Columbia are taking their environment and climate policy pitch directly to the international stage at a United Nations climate conference in...

Nov 05, 2022

Some Saskatchewan community members sleeping with guns after stabbing rampage: chief

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - The chief of a First Nation where there was a mass stabbing says some people are still sleeping with their guns as Indigenous leaders in Saskatchewan gathered to call for immedi...

Nov 04, 2022

Mother of Quebec infant recovered from river after car crash has died of her injuries

LAVAL, Que. - Police in the Montreal suburb of Laval say a mother who was behind the wheel of a vehicle that plunged into a river one week ago with her two children aboard has died of her injuries. La...

Nov 04, 2022

Doctors, nurses, advocates call on governments to address health-care crisis

TORONTO - Associations representing Canada's doctors, nursesand other health providers are calling on governments to work together to solve the health-care crisis that is affecting people across the c...

Nov 04, 2022

Intel panel finds 'important challenges' facing federal approach on hostage-takings

OTTAWA - MPs and senators who oversee security and intelligence activities are calling on the government to create a clear framework to respond to terrorist hostage-takings. The National Security and ...

Nov 04, 2022

Time changes persist despite experts' consensus to end daylight time

Most Canadians will be turning the clocks back by an hour this weekend as various political moves to end seasonal time changes have yet to take broad effect - but experts say we'd be better off withou...

Nov 04, 2022

The number of Mexican asylum seekers in Canada has increased dramatically

MONTREAL - Canada has seen a spike in the number of Mexicans seeking asylum here this year, with the vast majority of them coming to Montreal. They say they are fleeing Mexico in search of jobs and sa...

Nov 04, 2022

Canadians begin to receive temporary boost to GST rebate today

OTTAWA - Canadians who are eligible for the GST rebate can expect to receive an additional lump-sum payment as early as today. A bill introduced by the Liberal government to temporarily double the reb...

Nov 04, 2022

Canada sanctions Haitian officials as MPs told gangs are wreaking ‘civil war

Ottawa is sanctioning at least two senior Haitian officials for their alleged support of gangs in the country. Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly has announced sanctions in lockstep with the U.S. fo...

Nov 04, 2022

Court says conditional sentence curbs are constitutional in Indigenous case

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld the constitutionality of provisions that prevent an offender from avoiding jail by serving their sentence in the community, finding no evidence they had...

Nov 04, 2022