Canada

Business groups, city officials among first witnesses before Emergencies Act inquiry

OTTAWA - The inquiry into the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act is expected to hear first-hand testimony about the impact February's "Freedom Convoy" protest had on the people and busine...

Oct 14, 2022

Smith's discrimination remark making Alberta an international embarrassment: NDP

EDMONTON - Alberta's Opposition NDP leader says Premier Danielle Smith has made the province an international embarrassment by proclaiming those who didn't get vaccinated during COVID-19 endured the w...

Oct 13, 2022

Drought prompts request for Metro Vancouver residents to take shorter showers

VANCOUVER - Water use in Metro Vancouver is much higher, while reservoir levels are lower than normal, prompting the regional district to ask millions of residents and businesses to conserve. A statem...

Oct 13, 2022

A timeline of what led up to the invocation of the Emergencies Act

OTTAWA - As public hearings begin into the federal government's first use of the Emergencies Act legislation, inquiry commission lawyers have prepared a rough timeline of the events that led up to the...

Oct 13, 2022

Charges laid in Ottawa under new crime of harassing a health worker

OTTAWA - A 58-year-old Ontario man is facing charges under a new law against intimidating a health-care worker. Ottawa police say there is a warrant out for the arrest of Louis Mertzelos in relation t...

Oct 13, 2022

Quebec rights body probes case of Inuk teen allegedly put in isolation, denied care

MONTREAL - Quebec's youth rights commission is investigating the case of an Inuk teenager who was allegedly placed in isolation at a Montreal-area rehabilitation centre while in pain and in need of me...

Oct 13, 2022

Mélanie Joly pushes LNG ties in Japan and South Korea, amid North Korea missiles

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly says Canada is set to become a major energy supplier for Japan and South Korea. She is visiting both countries this week, and says there is an appetite fo...

Oct 13, 2022

Climate change fears high but vary by region, new poll suggests

OTTAWA - Millions of Canadians in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario will receive their quarterly carbon price rebate payments on Friday. But a new poll suggests residents of most of those pr...

Oct 13, 2022

Hockey Canada board resigned after justice Thomas Cromwell's recommendation

A former Supreme Court justice recommended wholesale change at Hockey Canada a day before the embattled sports organization's president/CEO and board resigned on Tuesday. Hockey Canada released a memo...

Oct 13, 2022

Feds don't know how many employees speak an Indigenous language at work

OTTAWA - The federal government says it doesn't know how many of its employees are expected to speak an Indigenous language as part of their job. It comes as Ottawa faces calls to expand the compensat...

Oct 13, 2022