Canada

Five things you need to know about the Liberals’ fall economic update

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals unveiled their fall economic update Thursday - a 92-page mini-budget setting out Canada's fiscal situation and outlining new policies to tackle cost-of-living woes. The w...

Nov 03, 2022

After N.S. mass shooting, American family member of victims lost faith in Mounties

HALIFAX - U.S. citizen Jennifer Zahl Bruland says the murders of her father and stepmother in Nova Scotia's mass shooting led her to stop believing in the quality of Canada's national police force. In...

Nov 03, 2022

Fall budget update promises tax credits for clean electricity and hydrogen production

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's fall economic statement creates two new federal tax credits for clean technology and low-emitting hydrogen production. The statement is Freeland's first b...

Nov 03, 2022

RCMP diverted attention from errors made during mass shooting investigation: lawsuit

HALIFAX - The spouse of the Nova Scotia mass shooter says she was charged with supplying ammunition to the killer because the RCMP wanted to deflect attention from mistakes made during their investiga...

Nov 03, 2022

'Eliminate the fraudsters': Report delves into Indigenous identity at universities

SASKATOON - A report commissioned after controversy circled a health professor's claims of being Mtis says the University of Saskatchewan was unprepared for Indigenous identity fraud and uneducated on...

Nov 03, 2022

Quebec hospital may remove child's breathing tube despite parents' objection: court

MONTREAL - A Quebec Superior Court judge has ruled that a Montreal children's hospital can permanently remove a breathing tube from a five-year-old who has been in a coma since June. The Sainte-Justin...

Nov 03, 2022

N.W.T. begins airlifting goods from cancelled barge into Sachs Harbour

SACHS HARBOUR, N.W.T. - The Northwest Territories government says it has begun airlifting cargo and fuel from a cancelled barge into Sachs Harbour. The territory announced late last month the barge wo...

Nov 03, 2022

'Race discrimination': Indigenous Quebec man who lived on reserve denied insurance

MONTREAL - Quebec's human rights commission has ruled that an Indigenous Quebec man who was denied car insurance because he lived on a reserve was the victim of race discrimination. Alexis Wawanoloath...

Nov 03, 2022

New Inuit Research Network aims to support Inuit self-determination in research

OTTAWA - The federal government and an organization representing Inuit in Canada have announced $6.4 million in funding to establish an Inuit Research Network. Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami says the funding...

Nov 03, 2022

Iqaluit RCMP investigating reports of pins found in Halloween candy

IQALUIT, Nunavut - RCMP are investigating after receiving two complaints that pins were found in children's Halloween candy in Iqaluit. Police say after receiving the first complaint Wednesday, they a...

Nov 03, 2022