Canada

Women, kids detained in ISIS camps should be repatriated to Canada quickly: expert

MONTREAL - A psychiatrist involved in efforts to support children of Canadian women detained in Syria after travelling to join the Islamic State is urging Ottawa to speed up repatriation efforts. Dr. ...

Oct 30, 2022

Search resumes for one-month old baby missing in river near Laval, Que. since Friday

MONTREAL - Police say the search for a one-month old child missing in the water off the shore of Laval, Que., just north of Montreal, has entered its second full day. The baby was in a vehicle with hi...

Oct 30, 2022

As election day approaches, voters in North Carolina hope for post-election peace

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - When it comes to the instability, discord and fears of violence that loom over the 2022 midterms, John Szoka has a simple solution: put people ahead of politics. It's hardly a new...

Oct 30, 2022

Chrystia Freeland, Melanie Joly among signatories to letter on Iranian women's rights

OTTAWA - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly are among the key signatories to an open letter decrying Iran's record on women's rights. The letter, publishe...

Oct 30, 2022

RCMP review prompted by employee's arrest urges changes to bolster internal security

OTTAWA - A confidential RCMP review, conducted after the arrest of a senior employee for allegedly leaking classified information, calls for a fundamental shift in the security culture of the national...

Oct 30, 2022

Climate Changed: Canada's health system isn't ready for new reality, say doctors

Montreal family doctor Claudel Ptrin-Desrosiers sees climate change as an all-encompassing "risk amplifier." She says it raises the potential for hazard across the board, from threatening the most bas...

Oct 30, 2022

Quebec Liberals chief organizer will not renew mandate, comes after historic defeat

MONTREAL - The chief organizer of the Quebec Liberal Party, Jean-Franois Helms, says he will not renew his mandate. Helms says today in a post on social media that he informed Leader Dominique Anglade...

Oct 29, 2022

Families of Flight 752 form Canada-wide 'human chain' to support Iran protests

TORONTO - The families of the victims of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 lent their voices to the worldwide calls for revolution in Iran on Saturday through a series of coordinated protests ...

Oct 29, 2022

Aircraft carrier visit to Halifax shows "how tight" U.S. is with allies: commander

HALIFAX - A senior officer on the newest and most advanced aircraft carrier in the U.S. navy's fleet says the ship's stop in Canada is a time to remember the value of working closely with allies in oc...

Oct 29, 2022

Search continues for one-month-old child missing in Laval, Que. river since Friday

MONTREAL - Searchers resumed their efforts to find a missing one-month-old child on Saturday, a day after the vehicle in which the infant was travelling drove into a river in Laval, Que. City police s...

Oct 29, 2022