Canada

Head of World Health Organization tells Montreal conference progress on HIV at risk

MONTREAL - The director-general of the World Health Organization told an international AIDS conference in Montreal today that growing inequality could reverse a decade of progress made in the fight ag...

Aug 01, 2022

Prime Minister Trudeau is routinely offered portraits of himself as gifts: Analysis

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been offered the gift of his own likeness some 17 times since becoming prime minister, including once by the president of China. The portraits, along with a myriad of...

Aug 01, 2022

Windshield smashed in P.E.I. pub's van after photos of Trudeau visit drew harassment

CHARLOTTETOWN - A brewpub on Prince Edward Island says a barrage of harassment that followed a visit from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has culminated in violence, after someone smashed the windshield...

Jul 31, 2022

Out-of-office reply: Prime Minister Trudeau, family on holiday in Costa Rica

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is heading to Costa Rica for a two-week vacation with his family. The Prime Minister's Office says the family is returning to the same place where they stayed ov...

Jul 31, 2022

'A specific form of anti-Black racism:' Scholars want Canadian apology for slavery

More than a year after Canada proclaimed Aug. 1 as Emancipation Day, Black leaders and scholars are renewing their calls for Ottawa to make a formal apology for the country's history of slavery and it...

Jul 31, 2022

Monkeypox: Experts at AIDS conference say the current global response is not enough

MONTREAL - A panel of scientists and activists at the AIDS 2022 conference in Montreal are urging worldwide governments to ramp up resources to handle the monkeypox outbreaks. The plea comes as intern...

Jul 31, 2022

Liberals give themselves more time to meet five-year-old peacekeeping pledge

OTTAWA - The Liberal government is giving itself more time to fulfil a key peacekeeping promise to the UN first made five years ago. The commitment involves the provision of a 200-soldier quick reacti...

Jul 31, 2022

Sacred site or rallying point? The politicization of Canada's National War Memorial

OTTAWA - The sacrifices of Canadians who fought and died for democracy and freedom during the Korean War were honoured during a small ceremony last week at the National War Memorial. The ceremonial pl...

Jul 31, 2022

Saudi-born Canadian gets life sentence in U.S. for ISIS propaganda support, terrorism

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Justice says a Saudi-born Canadian citizen was sentenced to life in prison Friday for conspiring to provide support resulting in death to the terrorist organization...

Jul 30, 2022

Police shoot man after officer wounded with weapon in rough Vancouver neighbourhood

VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver shot and injured a man Saturday after an officer was allegedly attacked with a weapon while on patrol in the city's Downtown Eastside. Const. Tania Visintin says in a s...

Jul 30, 2022