Canada

Delegation returns from Haiti amid high expectations for Canadian leadership

OTTAWA - Canada's ambassador to Haiti says a team tasked with assessing the situation in the beleaguered Caribbean nation has returned home. Ambassador Sbastien Carrire revealed the team's return whil...

Oct 31, 2022

Blair insists he 'did not ask' RCMP to release information about N.S. shooting guns

OTTAWA - Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair isn't budging from his stance that he did not interfere in a police investigation into the Nova Scotia mass shooting of April 2020. Blair, who was p...

Oct 31, 2022

MLA stripped of duties after inviting killer to throne speech

REGINA - Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe has removed a legislature member's duties after Lyle Stewart invited a notorious killer to watch the government's Speech from the Thorne last week. A statement ...

Oct 31, 2022

Employer confirms tentative contract with B.C.'s 49,000 public school teachers

VANCOUVER - A tentative contract agreement has been reached involving British Columbia's 49,000 public school teachers. The BC Public School Employers Association, which negotiates on behalf of the pr...

Oct 31, 2022

Texts show feds planning communications strategy before 'Freedom Convoy' arrival

Newly released text messages show how the federal government was planning its communications strategy before the arrival of "Freedom Convoy" protesters in Ottawa back in late January. Messages between...

Oct 31, 2022

What is the Emergencies Act, and what special powers did Ottawa invoke last winter?

OTTAWA - A massive public inquiry is underway to determine whether the federal government was justified in its invocation of the Emergencies Act last winter during the "Freedom Convoy" protests. The P...

Oct 31, 2022

New Montreal clinic will be part of Quebec network studying long COVID, Lyme disease

MONTREAL - A new clinic is opening today in Montreal that will treat patients who have either long COVID or Lyme disease. It is one of the 15 specialized facilities announced by the Quebec government ...

Oct 31, 2022

Police recover body of Quebec infant missing in river since car crash Friday

MONTREAL - Police in the Montreal suburb of Laval say they found the body today of a one-month-old infant missing in a river since Friday evening. The baby boy had disappeared when a vehicle with his ...

Oct 31, 2022

B.C. government offers new pay model for doctors to help health crisis

VANCOUVER - Family doctors in British Columbia are getting a significant raise under the province's new compensation model as part of a plan to address the crisis in the health care system. The provin...

Oct 31, 2022

'Money for free': Critics warn proposed Alberta well cleanup plan a royalty giveaway

EDMONTON - Critics fear Alberta's new United Conservative premier is preparing to bring in a program that would use billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded royalty breaks to subsidize energy companies ...

Oct 31, 2022