Canada

Canadian Blood Services in talks around paid donations of plasma as supply dwindles

Canadian Blood Services says it is in talks with companies that pay donors for plasma as it faces a decrease in collections. The blood-collection agency issued a statement on Friday saying it is in "o...

Aug 13, 2022

N.W.T. RCMP deploy controversial roadside cannabis screening devices

YELLOWKNIFE - RCMP in the Northwest Territories have begun using roadside cannabis-screening technology that has faced criticism from defence lawyers elsewhere in Canada. Mounties in the territory ann...

Aug 13, 2022

B.C. 'clear' there's not enough housing as Vancouver encampment ordered dismantled

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's acting attorney general says the province was "clear" with Vancouver officials that the Crown corporation responsible for subsidized housing does not have enough spaces ...

Aug 12, 2022

International partners had concern about Canada's 'ability to handle' convoy protests

OTTAWA - Two days before the Emergencies Act was invoked last February to quell anti-government convoy protests, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned ministers that international partners were concern...

Aug 12, 2022

Canada considered jobs, inflation in decision to return Russian turbine: documents

OTTAWA - Newly released documents show that Ottawa considered the impact on Canadian jobs and global inflation in its decision to return a turbine being repaired in Montreal to a Russian energy giant....

Aug 12, 2022

City of Iqaluit declares emergency due to water shortage

IQALUIT, Nunavut - The City of Iqaluit has declared a state of emergency due to a water shortage. The Nunavut capital says there has been a lack of precipitation this summer and flows in the Apex Rive...

Aug 12, 2022

Excitement in B.C. Indigenous communities as salmon get past Fraser slide zone

VANCOUVER - Thousands of migrating sockeye and chinook salmon appear to be making it through a massive slide area on the Fraser River on their way to spawn in central British Columbia. Fisheries and O...

Aug 12, 2022

Judge suspends two articles of Quebec's new language law regarding legal translations

MONTREAL - A Quebec Superior Court judge has temporarily suspended two articles of the province's new language law, saying they could prevent some English-speaking organizations from accessing justice...

Aug 12, 2022

Canadian wastewater surveillance expanding to new public health threats: Tam

OTTAWA - Canada's chief public health officer says plans are underway to sift through Canadian sewage to test for and measure new health threats like monkeypox and polio. Over the course of the COVID-...

Aug 12, 2022

Hundreds of lightning strikes hit B.C. as severe thunderstorms roll through

Severe thunderstorms have torn through British Columbia's Interior, delivering hundreds of lightning strikes to areas already ranked at a high to extreme risk for wildfires. The BC Wildfire Service we...

Aug 12, 2022