Canada

Quebec rejects plea to send army to northern region facing health worker shortage

MONTREAL - Quebec's Health Department says it has rejected a request from officials in the northern region of Nunavik that the Armed Forces be brought in to help ease a shortage of health-care workers...

Aug 10, 2022

World food crisis prompts rise in child marriages: Canadian aid agencies

OTTAWA - Canadian aid agencies are warning that the world food crisis, made worse by the war in Ukraine, is leading to a rise in underage girls being forced into marriage. Plan International Canada sa...

Aug 10, 2022

Manitoba first province to sign on to federal funding for crisis hotlines

WINNIPEG - Manitoba is the first province to sign on to new federal funding for crisis centres that help victims of gender-based violence. The federal government will provide Manitoba up to $1 million...

Aug 10, 2022

Ottawa woman who went missing in 1980 had been living outside Canada, recently died

OTTAWA - A four-decade-old missing persons case has been resolved more than a year after the woman's family made a renewed plea for information. Dale Nancy Wyman told some family members she was think...

Aug 10, 2022

Quebec religious minorities feel less safe, hopeful due to secularism law: survey

MONTREAL - A new survey has found that religious minorities in Quebec are feeling less safe, less accepted and less hopeful since the province passed its secularism law three years ago. The survey res...

Aug 10, 2022

Plastics producers ask court to quash planned federal ban on single-use straws, cups

OTTAWA - More than two dozen plastic makers are asking the Federal Court to put an end to Ottawa's plan to ban several single-use plastic items including straws, cutlery and takeout containers. It is ...

Aug 10, 2022

RCMP apologize: Questions remain more than 50 years after Yukon woman's death

Family members are still searching for answers after the RCMP apologized for not properly investigating an Indigenous woman's death more than five decades ago. Tootsie Jimmy-Charlie, a 26-year-old Kas...

Aug 10, 2022

Tory leadership poll; how families are coping with inflation: In The News for Aug. 10

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Aug. 10 ... What we are watching in Canada ......

Aug 10, 2022

The Poilievre divide: Ontario MP preferred leader for Conservatives but not Canadians

OTTAWA - Ontario MP Pierre Poilievre remains the heavy favourite to be the next Conservative party leader but he trails opponent Jean Charest for support among Canadians as a whole. A new Leger poll c...

Aug 10, 2022

Commercial fishers and wild salmon advocates cheer large returns to B.C. waters

VICTORIA - The summer of 2022 is shaping up to be a bumper season for both pink and sockeye salmon in British Columbia rivers, with one veteran Indigenous fisherman reporting the biggest catches of so...

Aug 10, 2022